Motivational Quotes

Love

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Love

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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

Bette Davis

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

10.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

11.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

12.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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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

14.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

15.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Buscaglia, Leo

17.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

18.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

19.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

20.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

21.

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

22.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

23.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

24.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

25.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

28.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

29.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

30.

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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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

32.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

33.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

34.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

John of the Cross, St.

37.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.