Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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

Proverb, Japanese

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

10.

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

Federman, Irwin

11.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

12.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

14.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

17.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

20.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

21.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

24.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

27.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

30.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

33.

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

34.

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

Southey, Robert

35.

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

Capote, Truman

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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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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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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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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Love, while you are able to love.