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

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Bible

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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

William Shakespeare

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Auvil, Myrtle

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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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

29.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

Levine, Stephen

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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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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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

43.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Sarton, May

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William