Motivational Quotes

Love

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

10.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

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

12.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

14.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

15.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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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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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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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

21.

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

Eliot, T. S.

22.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

23.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

24.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

25.

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

Crawford, Joan

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

29.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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

West, Mae

31.

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

Dyer, Wayne

32.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

33.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

34.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

35.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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

Delp, Alexis

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

41.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

42.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

43.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

44.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

45.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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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.