Motivational Quotes

Love

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

10.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

11.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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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 the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

19.

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

Allen, Woody

20.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

21.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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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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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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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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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

28.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

30.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

31.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

32.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

33.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

35.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

36.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

37.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

40.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

47.

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

Rowland, Helen

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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