Motivational Quotes

Love

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

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.

Davis, Bette

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

10.

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

11.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

13.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

15.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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

Confucius

17.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

18.

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

19.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

20.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

21.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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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 is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

24.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

25.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

26.

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

Bible

28.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

29.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

30.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

31.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

32.

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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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

34.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

35.

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

36.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

40.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

42.

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 argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

45.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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

Jane Austen

47.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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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

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving