Motivational Quotes

Love

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

10.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

11.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

12.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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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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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

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

23.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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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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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 the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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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 is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

34.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Kent, Sister Corita

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

41.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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

William Shakespeare

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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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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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat