Motivational Quotes

Love

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Love

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

Thurber, James

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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

10.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

12.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

13.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

15.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

16.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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

Delp, Alexis

21.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

25.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

27.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

29.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

31.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Federman, Irwin

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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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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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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 was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

44.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.