Motivational Quotes

Love

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

- Oxenham, John

Best Quotes about Love

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Bible

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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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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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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

Laing, R. D.

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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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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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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

Ferry, Brian

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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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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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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

28.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

33.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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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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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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

William Shakespeare

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

Delp, Alexis

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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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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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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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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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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare