Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

11.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

12.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

13.

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

14.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

15.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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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

18.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

19.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

21.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

24.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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

Proverb

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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.

30.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

31.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

34.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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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

36.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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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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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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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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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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