Motivational Quotes

Love

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Love

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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

Jennifer Aniston

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

10.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

11.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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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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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

14.

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

Martineau, Harriet

15.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

16.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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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

18.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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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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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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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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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

23.

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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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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

Wilkerson, David

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

27.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

28.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

29.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

30.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

31.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Williams, William Carlos

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

35.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

William Shakespeare

38.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

39.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

40.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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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

43.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

44.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

45.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.