Motivational Quotes

Love

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Love

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Mooneyham, Stan

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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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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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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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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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

Rossetti, Christina

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Rita Rudner

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Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French