Motivational Quotes

Love

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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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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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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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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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

30.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, 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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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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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

40.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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