Motivational Quotes

Love

Love the giver more than the gift.

- Young, Brigham

Best Quotes about Love

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Wilkerson, David

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Meredith, George

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

10.

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

11.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

13.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

19.

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

20.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

21.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

24.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Layton, Irving

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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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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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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

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

Ferry, Brian

34.

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 the bridge between two hearts.

36.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Laing, R. D.

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

41.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

46.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

47.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live