Motivational Quotes

Love

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

- Updike, John

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Ferry, Brian

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Mcdonald, George

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

15.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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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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If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

41.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Bridges, Robert