Motivational Quotes

Love

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

- Mcdonald, George

Best Quotes about Love

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

10.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

11.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

12.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

13.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

14.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

15.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

18.

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

19.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

20.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

21.

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.

22.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

25.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

29.

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

Bailey, Pearl

30.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

33.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

38.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

42.

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

43.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

44.

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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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

47.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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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

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare