Motivational Quotes

Love

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

- Drummond, Henry

Best Quotes about Love

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

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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

William Shakespeare

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

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Clark, Melanie

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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

Layton, Irving

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George