Motivational Quotes

Love

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

- Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Randy K. Milholland

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

William Shakespeare

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

10.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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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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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

18.

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

Bible

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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

Laing, R. D.

26.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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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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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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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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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Bible

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

42.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

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

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.