Motivational Quotes

Love

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

- Rich, Adrienne

Best Quotes about Love

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

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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

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

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

10.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

12.

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

Burton, Robert

13.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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

Eliot, T. S.

15.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

16.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

18.

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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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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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

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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

Buscaglia, Leo

25.

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

Voltaire

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

31.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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

Sand, George

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

41.

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

42.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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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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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel