Motivational Quotes

Love

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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

Rossetti, Christina

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

10.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

11.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

12.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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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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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

17.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

18.

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

Reik, Theodor

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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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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

23.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

24.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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

Erica Jong

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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

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

29.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

30.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

31.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

34.

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

Dane, Frank

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

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

Charles M. Schulz

38.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

39.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

40.

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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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

42.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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

Murdoch, Iris

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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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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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare