Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

11.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

14.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

15.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

16.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

17.

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

18.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

19.

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

Aristotle

20.

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

21.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

23.

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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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

25.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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

27.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

28.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

29.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

30.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

31.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

32.

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

33.

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

34.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

36.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

39.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

40.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

41.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

42.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

43.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

44.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

45.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

46.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

47.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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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 shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.

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

Osgood, Samuel