Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- John of the Cross, St.

Best Quotes about Love

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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

Seneca

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Plato

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

11.

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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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

26.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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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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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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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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

John of the Cross, St.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.