Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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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.

Davis, Bette

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

Behn, Aphra

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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

Proverb

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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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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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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

Jane Austen

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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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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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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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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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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

W. Somerset Maugham