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

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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

Nathan, George Jean

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

10.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

11.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

14.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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

John of the Cross, St.

17.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

18.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

19.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

20.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

21.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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

William Shakespeare

23.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

24.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

25.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

26.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

27.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

28.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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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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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

33.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

34.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

35.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

40.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

42.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

43.

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

44.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

46.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

William Shakespeare

48.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

49.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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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