Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

- Rabbi Julius Gordon

Best Quotes about Love

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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

Osgood, Samuel

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

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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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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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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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

18.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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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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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

36.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma