Motivational Quotes

Love

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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

Jeph Jacques

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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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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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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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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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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

Bible

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

28.

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

Allen, Woody

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

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Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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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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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.