Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

- Haight, David B.

Best Quotes about Love

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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

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

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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

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

Rossetti, Christina

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Calvino, Italo

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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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.

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

27.

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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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

29.

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

Proverb, Japanese

30.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

31.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Alan Watts

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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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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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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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

38.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

43.

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

Dane, Frank

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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

45.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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

Irving, Washington

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria