Motivational Quotes

Love

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Love

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

Brown, David

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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

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

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

Bible

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

11.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

12.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

13.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

15.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

18.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

19.

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

20.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

21.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

22.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

23.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

24.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

25.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules 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

28.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

29.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

30.

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.

31.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

32.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

33.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

34.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

35.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

38.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

41.

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

42.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

43.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

44.

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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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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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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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.