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

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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

10.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

11.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

13.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

16.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

17.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

18.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

19.

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

Bible

20.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

24.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

25.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

26.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

27.

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

Hoffman, Lisa

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

29.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

30.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

31.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

33.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

35.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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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 is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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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 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

40.

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

Groening, Matt

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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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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

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

45.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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