Motivational Quotes

Love

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

- Bailey, Pearl

Best Quotes about Love

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

Proverb

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

10.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

11.

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

12.

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

Bible

13.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

14.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

15.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

16.

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

Richardson, Nick

17.

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

Ovid

18.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

19.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

20.

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

Jane Austen

21.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

22.

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

Bacon, Francis

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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

Hoffman, Lisa

25.

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

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

27.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

28.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

31.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

32.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

34.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

35.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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

Thurber, James

42.

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

William Shakespeare

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

45.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

46.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson