Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Harrigan, John

Best Quotes about Love

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

Rossetti, Christina

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Lewis, Sinclair

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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

Lawrence, D. H.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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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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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Byron, Lord

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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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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

17.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

18.

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

19.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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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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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

30.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

31.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

37.

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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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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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 life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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

44.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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

Irving, Washington