Motivational Quotes

Love

Love alone could waken love.

- Buck, Pearl S.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Federman, Irwin

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

Bible

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

10.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

11.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

12.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

13.

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

14.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

15.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

16.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

18.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

20.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

21.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

25.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

26.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

27.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

33.

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

Capote, Truman

34.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

35.

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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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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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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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

40.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Confucius

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Thurber, James

47.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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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

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

Jerome, St.

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If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von