Motivational Quotes

Love

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Law, William

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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

Lawrence, D. H.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

10.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

11.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

12.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

13.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

14.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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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

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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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

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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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

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

37.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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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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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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

Donne, John

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

Meredith, George

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar