Motivational Quotes

Love

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

10.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

11.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

12.

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

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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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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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

17.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

19.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

20.

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Richardson, Nick

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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

Donne, John

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

Ice T

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

31.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

32.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

33.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Lao-Tzu

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

37.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Buscaglia, Leo

39.

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

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

44.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel