Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Love

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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

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.

10.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

11.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

William Shakespeare

17.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

18.

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

Bible

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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

Peguy, Charles

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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

Carmichael, Amy

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

34.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

36.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

37.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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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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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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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

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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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

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais