Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Desai, Yogi

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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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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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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

Wilde, Kim

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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

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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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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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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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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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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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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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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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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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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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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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.