Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Proverb

10.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

11.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

14.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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

Law, William

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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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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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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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

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

27.

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

28.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

30.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

31.

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

Willis, Bruce

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Kent, Sister Corita

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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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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

37.

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

Scott Westerfeld

38.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

39.

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

Tomlin, Lily

40.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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

Jennifer Aniston

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.