Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

- Gordon, Rabbi J.

Best Quotes about Love

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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

Nathan, George Jean

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

10.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

11.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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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

15.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Proverb, Spanish

17.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

18.

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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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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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

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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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

25.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

26.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

27.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

28.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

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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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

34.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

35.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

37.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

39.

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.

40.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

41.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

43.

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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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

45.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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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.

Bette Davis