Motivational Quotes

Love

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

- Gay, John

Best Quotes about Love

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

10.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

11.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

12.

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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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

14.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

15.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

16.

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 ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

22.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

23.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

24.

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

Wilde, Oscar

25.

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

Proverb

26.

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

27.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

28.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

29.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

30.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

31.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

32.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

33.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

34.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

35.

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

36.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

39.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

40.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

41.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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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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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

44.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

48.

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna