Motivational Quotes

Love

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

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Best Quotes about Love

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

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

12.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

15.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

16.

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

Wilde, Kim

17.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

19.

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

20.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

21.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

23.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

25.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

26.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

27.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

28.

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

Federman, Irwin

29.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

30.

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

Vicious, Sid

31.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

32.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

33.

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

Barry, Lynda

34.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

35.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

36.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

37.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

38.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

39.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

40.

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

41.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

42.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

43.

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

44.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

45.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

46.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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Be that self which one truly is.