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

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

11.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

12.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

13.

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

14.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

15.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

17.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

18.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

20.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

21.

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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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

23.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

25.

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 does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

27.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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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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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

35.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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 consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.