Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Osgood, Samuel

Best Quotes about Love

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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

Sophocles

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

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

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Paolo Giordano

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

10.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

11.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

14.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

15.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

16.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

17.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

18.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

19.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

20.

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

21.

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

Aragon, Louis

22.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

24.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

25.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

27.

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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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

29.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

30.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

31.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

33.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

34.

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

Mooneyham, Stan

35.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

36.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

37.

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

Thurber, James

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

40.

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

41.

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

Jane Austen

42.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

43.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

44.

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

45.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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 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

49.

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

Martineau, Harriet

50.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare