Motivational Quotes

Love

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

- Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Best Quotes about Love

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

Aristotle

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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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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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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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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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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

John of the Cross, St.

25.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

26.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

30.

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

Proverb, Spanish

31.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

32.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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

Calvino, Italo

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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

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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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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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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

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

Davis, Bette

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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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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

42.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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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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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William