Motivational Quotes

Love

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Paolo Giordano

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

11.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

12.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

14.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

15.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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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

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

27.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

29.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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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

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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

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

William Shakespeare

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

48.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Aristotle

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn