Motivational Quotes

Love

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Love

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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

Bette Davis

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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

Barry, Lynda

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

11.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

12.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

13.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

14.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

15.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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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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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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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

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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

Pascal, Blaise

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

29.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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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

41.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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]

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