Motivational Quotes

Love

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

- Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

Best Quotes about Love

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Richardson, Nick

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

Sarton, May

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

10.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

11.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

12.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

13.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

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

Donne, John

15.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

16.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

17.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

18.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

19.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

22.

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

Bible

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

Law, William

24.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

25.

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

26.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

28.

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

29.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

30.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

31.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

32.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

33.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

34.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

35.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

36.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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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 a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

40.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

41.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

42.

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

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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

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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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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

46.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

47.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

49.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

50.

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

Tomlin, Lily