Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Love

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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

Williams, William Carlos

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

11.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

17.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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

Bridges, Robert

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

25.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

27.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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

Scherer, Paul

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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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

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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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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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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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.

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

43.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

45.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich