Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Love

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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

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

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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

Jane Austen

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.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

10.

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

John of the Cross, St.

11.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Donne, John

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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

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

28.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

30.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

31.

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

Peter Ustinov

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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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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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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

Rossetti, Christina

40.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Proverb, French

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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

Augustine, St.

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

Margaret Cho

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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