Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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

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

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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

William Shakespeare

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

10.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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

13.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

15.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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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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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

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

20.

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

Anderson, Margaret

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

Wilde, Kim

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

29.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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

William Shakespeare

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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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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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

37.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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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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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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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.

44.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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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've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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

Brown, Les