Motivational Quotes

Love

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Love

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

10.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

11.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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

Proverb, Spanish

14.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

15.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

16.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

17.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

18.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

19.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

20.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Dryden, John

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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

25.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

27.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

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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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

30.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

31.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

34.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

35.

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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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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

Auvil, Myrtle

39.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

40.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

41.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

42.

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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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

45.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

46.

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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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

48.

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

Sarton, May

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.