Motivational Quotes

Love

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

- Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Best Quotes about Love

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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

Donne, John

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 can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Wilkerson, David

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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

Laing, R. D.

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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

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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

Ferry, Brian

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

Irving, Washington

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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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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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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.