Motivational Quotes

Love

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

11.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

12.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Paolo Giordano

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

18.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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

William Shakespeare

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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

41.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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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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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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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May