Motivational Quotes

Love

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

- Martial, Marcus Valerius

Best Quotes about Love

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

John Sheffield

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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

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

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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

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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

11.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

12.

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.

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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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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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre 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

19.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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

Donne, John

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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

Byron, Lord

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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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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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

32.

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 is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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

Levine, Stephen

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

40.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack