Motivational Quotes

Love

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Love

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Dickinson, Emily

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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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

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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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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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

23.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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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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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Bible

36.

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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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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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

43.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

44.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

46.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

47.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris