Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

10.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

11.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

12.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

14.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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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

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

18.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

19.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

20.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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

William Shakespeare

23.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

24.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

25.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

27.

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

28.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

29.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

30.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

31.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

34.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

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35.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

38.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

40.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

41.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

42.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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

Proverb

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

49.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

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