Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Penn

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Rossetti, Christina

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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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

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Laing, R. D.

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.