Motivational Quotes

Love

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Behn, Aphra

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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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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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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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

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Levine, Stephen

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

28.

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

Bible

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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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

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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

William Shakespeare

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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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

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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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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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.