Motivational Quotes

Love

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

- John Sheffield

Best Quotes about Love

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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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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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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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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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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 alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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.

Davis, Bette

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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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

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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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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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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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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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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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De