Motivational Quotes

Love

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Carroll, Pat

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

Scherer, Paul

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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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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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

19.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

21.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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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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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Augustine, St.

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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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 fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

39.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

40.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Dane, Frank

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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

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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