Motivational Quotes

Love

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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

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

Mooneyham, Stan

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

Bible

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.

10.

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

Michael Patrick King

11.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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

14.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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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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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

20.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

21.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

28.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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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.

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

Meredith, George

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.