Motivational Quotes

Love

My love admits no qualifying dross.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Crawford, Joan

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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

William Shakespeare

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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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

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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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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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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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

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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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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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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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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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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane