Motivational Quotes

Love

Love the giver more than the gift.

- Young, Brigham

Best Quotes about Love

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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

Jennifer Aniston

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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

John Sheffield

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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

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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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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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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

Lennon, John

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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

William Shakespeare

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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

Nathan, George Jean

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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

William Shakespeare

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Murdoch, Iris

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.