Motivational Quotes

Love

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

- Steindl-Rast, David

Best Quotes about Love

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

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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

Buscaglia, Leo

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

10.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

11.

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

Pythagoras

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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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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

16.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

19.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Proverb, Irish

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

29.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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

Sand, George

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

38.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare