Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Gogh, Vincent Van

Best Quotes about Love

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

10.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

11.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

12.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

13.

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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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

16.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

17.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

18.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

19.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

20.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

21.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

22.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

23.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

25.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

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

Martineau, Harriet

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

28.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

29.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

30.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

31.

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

Fromm, Erich

32.

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

Buber, Martin

33.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Du Coeur

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

William Shakespeare

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

43.

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

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

47.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

48.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

49.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey