Motivational Quotes

Love

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

- William Penn

Best Quotes about Love

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

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Steindl-Rast, David

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

10.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

11.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

12.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

William Shakespeare

15.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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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

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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

Jerome, St.

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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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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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

25.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

26.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

27.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

30.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

31.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

33.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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

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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

40.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

41.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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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

44.

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

Disney, Walt

45.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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

Aragon, Louis

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

49.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen