Motivational Quotes

Love

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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.

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

Laing, R. D.

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

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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 and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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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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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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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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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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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

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Scherer, Paul

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

Mooneyham, Stan

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Rowland, Helen

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt