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

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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

West, Mae

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

11.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

12.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

36.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern