Motivational Quotes

Love

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

- Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Best Quotes about Love

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

Thoreau, Henry David

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

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

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Swift, Jonathan

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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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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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert