Motivational Quotes

Love

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

- Jane Austen

Best Quotes about Love

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Hazlitt, William

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

11.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

12.

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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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

23.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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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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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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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

29.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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

34.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

35.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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

Ackerman, Diane

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

43.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck