Motivational Quotes

Love

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

- More, Hannah

Best Quotes about Love

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

10.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

11.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

12.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

13.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

14.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

15.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

17.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

18.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

19.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

20.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

21.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

22.

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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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

24.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

25.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

26.

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

Proverb, French

27.

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

28.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

29.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

30.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

31.

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

32.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

33.

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

34.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

35.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

37.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

39.

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

Bible

40.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

41.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

42.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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

Carmichael, Amy

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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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

46.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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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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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