Motivational Quotes

Love

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Love

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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

Jerome, St.

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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.

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

21.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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

West, Mae

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset