Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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

Durrell, Lawrence

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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

Mcdonald, George

10.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

11.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

13.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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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

15.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

16.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

17.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

18.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

19.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

20.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

21.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

22.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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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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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

29.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

32.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

37.

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

38.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Byron, Lord

40.

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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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

42.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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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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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

45.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

46.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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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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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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.