Motivational Quotes

Love

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Love

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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

10.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

11.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

12.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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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.

14.

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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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

17.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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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

19.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

20.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

21.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

22.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

26.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

27.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

28.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

29.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

30.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

31.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

32.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

33.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

35.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

36.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

37.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

41.

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

Federman, Irwin

42.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

43.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

44.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

45.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

46.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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

Tracy, Brian

48.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare