Motivational Quotes

Love

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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.

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

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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

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

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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

James, William

10.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

11.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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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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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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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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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

18.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

24.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

25.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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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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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

37.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Mooneyham, Stan

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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

Elizabeth Aston

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew