Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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

Meredith, George

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Scherer, Paul

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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

John Sheffield

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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

William Shakespeare

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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

Murdoch, Iris

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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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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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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.