Motivational Quotes

Love

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.

Best Quotes about Love

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

10.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

11.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

12.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

13.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

14.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

15.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

16.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

17.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

18.

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

19.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

20.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

21.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

22.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

23.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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

Gibran, Kahlil

25.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

26.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

27.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

28.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

29.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

35.

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

Ovid

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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.

37.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

38.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

39.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

40.

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

Jeanne Moreau

42.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

43.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

44.

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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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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

Steinfeld, Jake

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

50.

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