Motivational Quotes

Love

Love the giver more than the gift.

- Young, Brigham

Best Quotes about Love

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Southey, Robert

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

11.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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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.

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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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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

18.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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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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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

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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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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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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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.

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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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

36.

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

Murdoch, Iris

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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

39.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.