Motivational Quotes

Love

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

10.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

11.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

12.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

13.

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

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

Proverb

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

24.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

25.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

26.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

30.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

31.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

35.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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

Burton, Robert

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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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

42.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

43.

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

Smith, Sydney

44.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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

Ferry, Brian

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent