Motivational Quotes

Love

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

- Guthrie, Arlo

Best Quotes about Love

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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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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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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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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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

Rossetti, Christina

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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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

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Margaret Cho

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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We live in the world when we love it.