Motivational Quotes

Love

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

- Fox, Emmet

Best Quotes about Love

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

10.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

11.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan