Motivational Quotes

Love

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

- Laing, R. D.

Best Quotes about Love

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

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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.

11.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

14.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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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.

18.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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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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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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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

31.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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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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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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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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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.