Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Love

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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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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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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

Margaret Cho

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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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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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.

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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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's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

28.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Bible

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare