Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Love

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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

William Shakespeare

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

10.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

11.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

12.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

15.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.

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

Bible

19.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

21.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

22.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

26.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

27.

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

Proverb, Japanese

28.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

30.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

31.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

34.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

35.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

36.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

37.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

42.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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

Stravinsky, Igor

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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

Hoffman, Lisa

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

49.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare