Motivational Quotes

Love

We can only learn to love by loving.

- Iris Murdoch

Best Quotes about Love

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

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Rossetti, Christina

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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

Ovid

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

William Shakespeare

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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

Chambless, David

42.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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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 the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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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