Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

William Shakespeare

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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

Proverb, French

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Desai, Yogi

10.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

11.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

12.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

13.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

17.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

18.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

19.

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

Hoffman, Lisa

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Fromm, Erich

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

25.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

26.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

27.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

28.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

29.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

34.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

38.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

39.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

40.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

41.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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

Law, William

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.