Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

- Smith, Wolfman Jack

Best Quotes about Love

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

Marlowe, Christopher

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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

Aristotle

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

Byron, Lord

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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

Voltaire

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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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 love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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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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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris