Motivational Quotes

Love

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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

Laing, R. D.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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

Covey, Stephen R.

10.

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

11.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

12.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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

Fromm, Erich

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

20.

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

Groening, Matt

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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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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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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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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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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

Proverb, French

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.