Motivational Quotes

Love

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

William Shakespeare

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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

Voltaire

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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

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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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

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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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

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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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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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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 is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise