Motivational Quotes

Love

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

- Bridges, Robert

Best Quotes about Love

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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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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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

14.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

16.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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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

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

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

Proverb, Irish

20.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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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

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Jeanne Moreau

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

28.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

30.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

33.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

34.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

37.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

42.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

43.

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

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