Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Love

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Bible

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

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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

Bible

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

Lao-Tzu

10.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

11.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Sarton, May

15.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

16.

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

Behn, Aphra

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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

18.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

24.

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

Sand, George

25.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

27.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

28.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

30.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

31.

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

Bible

32.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

34.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

35.

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

36.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

37.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

40.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

41.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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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

45.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides