Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Gogh, Vincent Van

Best Quotes about Love

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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

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.

10.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

11.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

12.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

19.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

22.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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.

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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

William Shakespeare

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

33.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

42.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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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

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William