Motivational Quotes

Love

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Love

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

11.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Paolo Giordano

18.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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

Horton, Doug

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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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 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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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

William Shakespeare

36.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

41.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?