Motivational Quotes

Love

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

- Lokes, Harold

Best Quotes about Love

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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

10.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

11.

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

Jane Austen

12.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

13.

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

17.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

20.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

22.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

23.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

25.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

27.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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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.

Randy K. Milholland

30.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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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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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

33.

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

37.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

38.

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

Chambless, David

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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

40.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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

Jerome, St.

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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

Martineau, Harriet

44.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.