Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Harrigan, John

Best Quotes about Love

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

W. Somerset Maugham

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Jeph Jacques

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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

10.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

11.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

12.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

15.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Nathan, George Jean

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

19.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

21.

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

Updike, John

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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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

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

26.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

27.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

28.

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

William Penn

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

32.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

33.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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

Lennon, John

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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

39.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

40.

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

Southey, Robert

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

44.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

45.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

50.

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