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

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

10.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

11.

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

Lao-Tzu

12.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

16.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

20.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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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

22.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Allen, Woody

24.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

25.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

26.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

27.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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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

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

32.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

34.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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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

39.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

40.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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

45.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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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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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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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

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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