Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Gogh, Vincent Van

Best Quotes about Love

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

10.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

11.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

12.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

13.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

14.

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

15.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

16.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

17.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

18.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

19.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

20.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

21.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

22.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

23.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

24.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

26.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

27.

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

Toni Morrison

28.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

29.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

31.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

34.

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

Davies, Robertson

35.

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

Tomlin, Lily

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

38.

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

Saltus, Edgar

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

40.

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

Tracy, Brian

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

46.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

47.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

49.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi