Motivational Quotes

Love

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

- Movie, Wizard of Oz

Best Quotes about Love

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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

William Shakespeare

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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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

18.

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

Wilkerson, David

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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

Kent, Sister Corita

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

37.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

45.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von