Motivational Quotes

Love

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Love

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

Bible

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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

Lawrence, D. H.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

10.

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

11.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

12.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

13.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

14.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

15.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

17.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

18.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

19.

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

Orwell, George

20.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

22.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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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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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

25.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

26.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

27.

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

28.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

29.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

30.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

31.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

32.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

33.

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

34.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

35.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

36.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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

Fox, Emmet

38.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

39.

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

40.

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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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

42.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

43.

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

Paolo Giordano

44.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

48.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

49.

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

Bridges, Robert