Motivational Quotes

Love

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

- Carmichael, Amy

Best Quotes about Love

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Mencken, H. L.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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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

11.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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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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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

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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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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

23.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

31.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

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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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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

Bible

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Turner, Ted

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Brookner, Anita

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius