Motivational Quotes

Love

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Love

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

10.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

11.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

12.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

13.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

14.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

15.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

16.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

17.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

18.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

19.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

20.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Bacon, Francis

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

23.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

24.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

25.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

27.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

29.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

30.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

31.

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

Levine, Stephen

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

33.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

34.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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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

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

Duffy, Maureen

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

Lennon, John

40.

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 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 like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

43.

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

44.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

45.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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

William Shakespeare

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

49.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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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, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare