Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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

Croft, Roy

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

10.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

11.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

12.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

13.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

14.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

15.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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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

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

19.

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

Auvil, Myrtle

20.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

21.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

25.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

28.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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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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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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

Proverb, French

36.

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

Mooneyham, Stan

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Brookner, Anita

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

40.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

41.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

43.

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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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

45.

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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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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

Charles M. Schulz

48.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho