Motivational Quotes

Love

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

- Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Jerome, St.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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

Hoffman, Lisa

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

10.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

11.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

12.

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

13.

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

Eucharista Ward

14.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

15.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

16.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

17.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

18.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

19.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

20.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

21.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

22.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

23.

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

Bible

24.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

25.

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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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

30.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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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 is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

42.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales