Motivational Quotes

Love

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

- Brothers, Dr. Joyce

Best Quotes about Love

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

10.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

11.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Wilde, Kim

13.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

14.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

15.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

16.

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

17.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

20.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

22.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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

Dane, Frank

25.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

26.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

28.

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

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

30.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

31.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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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

33.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

34.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

35.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

39.

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

40.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

41.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

44.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

45.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.