Motivational Quotes

Love

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

- Steindl-Rast, David

Best Quotes about Love

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

Southey, Robert

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

Lennon, John

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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.

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

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

11.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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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

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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

Bible

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

27.

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

28.

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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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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

Auvil, Myrtle

32.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

35.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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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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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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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