Motivational Quotes

Love

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Love

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

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

10.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

11.

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

Jane Austen

12.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

13.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

16.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

William Shakespeare

18.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

25.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

28.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Pilgrim, Peace

30.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

34.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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

Byron, Lord

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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

David Viscott

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare