Motivational Quotes

Love

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

- Kathryn L. Nelson

Best Quotes about Love

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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

Duffy, Maureen

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.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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.

10.

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.

11.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

12.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

William Shakespeare

16.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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

Proverb, Japanese

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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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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

21.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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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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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

25.

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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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

29.

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

Bible

30.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

31.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

35.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

38.

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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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

44.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

48.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

50.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert