Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Aragon, Louis

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Southey, Robert

10.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

11.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

12.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

13.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

14.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

15.

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

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

17.

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

Pavese, Cesare

18.

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

19.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

21.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

22.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

24.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

25.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

26.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

27.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

28.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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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

32.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

33.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

34.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

36.

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

Jerome, St.

37.

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

Lennon, John

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

41.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

42.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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

45.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

47.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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