Motivational Quotes

Love

A heart that loves is always young.

- Proverb, Greek

Best Quotes about Love

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Osgood, Samuel

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

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hugo, Victor

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 not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

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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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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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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.

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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

Steinfeld, Jake

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Shakespeare, William

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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.

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Burton, Robert

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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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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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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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 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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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

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul