Motivational Quotes

Love

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about Love

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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

Stravinsky, Igor

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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

Southey, Robert

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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

Steindl-Rast, David

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

11.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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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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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Margaret Cho

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

William Shakespeare

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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

40.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Hay, Louise L.

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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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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Bacon, Francis

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre