Motivational Quotes

Love

Do all things with love.

- Mandino, Og

Best Quotes about Love

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

Updike, John

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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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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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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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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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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

Duffy, Maureen

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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

Ovid

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Vicious, Sid

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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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 what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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

Donne, John