Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the river of life in the world.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Love

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Wilde, Kim

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

10.

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

Federman, Irwin

11.

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

Proverb, French

12.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

13.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

15.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

17.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

18.

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

19.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Saltus, Edgar

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

27.

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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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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

John of the Cross, St.

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

34.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

38.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

40.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

43.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

44.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

47.

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

Augustine, St.

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria