Motivational Quotes

Love

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Bourget, Paul

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Hoffman, Lisa

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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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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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

Strindberg, J. August

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

Delp, Alexis

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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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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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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

Barry, Lynda

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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

Proverb

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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

Duras, Marguerite

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese