Motivational Quotes

Love

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

- William Penn

Best Quotes about Love

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

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

Murdoch, Iris

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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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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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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

Brooke, Rupert

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

William Shakespeare

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.