Motivational Quotes

Love

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

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

Saltus, Edgar

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

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

Osgood, Samuel

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

Ice T

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

10.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

11.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

12.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

13.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

14.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

16.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

17.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

19.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

20.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

23.

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

Bible

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

25.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

26.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

27.

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

Toni Morrison

28.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

30.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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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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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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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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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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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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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

39.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

40.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Martineau, Harriet

42.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

43.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

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's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

49.

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

50.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William