Motivational Quotes

Love

Lovers should also have their days off.

- Barney, Natalie Clifford

Best Quotes about Love

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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

Traherne, Thomas

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

11.

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

Wieder, Marcia

12.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

16.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

18.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

19.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

20.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

21.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

John of the Cross, St.

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Covey, Stephen R.

25.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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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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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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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

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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

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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

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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

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

42.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

44.

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

45.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.