Motivational Quotes

Love

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

- Stendhal, Henri B.

Best Quotes about Love

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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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 a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Proverb, Irish

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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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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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

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

Horton, Doug

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith