Motivational Quotes

Love

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

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

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Laing, R. D.

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

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

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

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

25.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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.

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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

Crawshaw, Richard

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Southey, Robert

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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

Voltaire

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Rowland, Helen

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August