Motivational Quotes

Love

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

- Swift, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Love

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

Proust, Marcel

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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

Crawshaw, Richard

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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

Calvino, Italo

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

10.

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

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

15.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

18.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

19.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

21.

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

22.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

25.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

29.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

30.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

31.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

32.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

34.

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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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

37.

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

Turner, Ted

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

42.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

William Shakespeare

46.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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.

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David