Motivational Quotes

Love

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

- Davies, Robertson

Best Quotes about Love

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Mcdonald, George

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

12.

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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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Thurber, James

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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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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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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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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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

41.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

43.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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