Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Mansfield, Katherine

Best Quotes about Love

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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

Jane Austen

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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

Bridges, Robert

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Bible

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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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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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

Swift, Jonathan

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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

William Shakespeare

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

Buber, Martin

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Bible

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.