Motivational Quotes

Love

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Love

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Carroll, Pat

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

10.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

11.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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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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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

18.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

19.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

20.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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

Wilkerson, David

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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.

William Shakespeare

24.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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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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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

29.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

30.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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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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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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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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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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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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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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