Motivational Quotes

Love

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

- Van Gogh, Vincent

Best Quotes about Love

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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

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

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

10.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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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.

Davis, Bette

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

14.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

15.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Harrigan, John

19.

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

20.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

21.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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

Duffy, Maureen

23.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

25.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

27.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

28.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

29.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

30.

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

West, Mae

31.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

33.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

34.

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.

35.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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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

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

40.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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

John Sheffield

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

44.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

46.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb

50.

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