Motivational Quotes

Love

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Love

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Thurber, James

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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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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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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

David Viscott

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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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 the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Dickinson, Emily

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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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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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De