Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

10.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

11.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

14.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

15.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

16.

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

17.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

19.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

20.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

21.

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

Bible

22.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

23.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

24.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

25.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

26.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

30.

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

31.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

33.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

34.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

35.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

36.

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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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

38.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

40.

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.

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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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

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

48.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

49.

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

Ackerman, Diane

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We were two and had but one heart between us.