Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

- Jean Anouilh

Best Quotes about Love

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

Bridges, Robert

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

10.

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

11.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

12.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

13.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

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

Bible

16.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

17.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

18.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

20.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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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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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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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

25.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

27.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Bible

29.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

30.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

31.

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

Ackerman, Diane

32.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

33.

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

34.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

37.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

40.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

41.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

44.

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

Proverb

45.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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

William Shakespeare

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey