Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Francis of Assisi, St.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Covey, Stephen R.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Burton, Robert

10.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

12.

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

13.

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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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

15.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

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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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

18.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

23.

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

DiFranco, Ani

24.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

25.

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

William Shakespeare

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

27.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

28.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

30.

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

31.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

32.

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

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

34.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

35.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

36.

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

William Shakespeare

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

38.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

39.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

40.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

41.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

42.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

43.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

44.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

47.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

49.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

50.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair