Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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

Hay, Louise L.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

11.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

13.

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

Calvino, Italo

14.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

16.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

17.

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

Proverb

18.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

19.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

20.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

21.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

22.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

23.

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

Bacon, Francis

24.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

25.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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

Croft, Roy

27.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

28.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

29.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

30.

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

31.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

33.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

34.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

35.

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

Rossetti, Christina

36.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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

John of the Cross, St.

39.

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

Dane, Frank

40.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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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

42.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

43.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

44.

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

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

Blanton, Smiley