Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Gogh, Vincent Van

Best Quotes about Love

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

Law, William

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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

10.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

11.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

12.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

13.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

14.

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

Aragon, Louis

15.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

16.

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

Hay, Louise L.

17.

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

Bible

18.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

19.

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

20.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

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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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

24.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

25.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

26.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

29.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

30.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

33.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

34.

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

Byron, Lord

35.

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

37.

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.

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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 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

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

43.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

44.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

47.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Margaret Cho

49.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther