Motivational Quotes

Love

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

- Jane Austen

Best Quotes about Love

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

Martineau, Harriet

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Sophocles

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Fromm, Erich

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

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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

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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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

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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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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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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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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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 is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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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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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.