Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Davies, Robertson

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Proverb, French

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

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.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

10.

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

Sand, George

11.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

12.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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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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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

16.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

17.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

18.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

19.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

20.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

21.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

24.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

25.

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

Wilkerson, David

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

27.

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

28.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

29.

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.

30.

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

Hoffman, Lisa

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lao-Tzu

33.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

34.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

35.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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

37.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

38.

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

Plato

39.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

40.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

41.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

43.

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

Confucius

44.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

45.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

46.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.