Motivational Quotes

Love

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

- Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

Best Quotes about Love

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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

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

Capote, Truman

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

10.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

11.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

12.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

15.

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

16.

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

Hertl, Nick

17.

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

18.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

19.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

20.

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

21.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

22.

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

23.

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

Bible

24.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

26.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

30.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

31.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

32.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

33.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

34.

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.

35.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

36.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

38.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

39.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

40.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

42.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

43.

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.

44.

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

Youngman, Henny

45.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

46.

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

47.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

49.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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

Donne, John