Motivational Quotes

Love

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about Love

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

10.

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

11.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

12.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

13.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

14.

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

Lennon, John

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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

Calvino, Italo

21.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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

Bacon, Francis

28.

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

West, Mae

29.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

32.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

33.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

35.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

36.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

39.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

43.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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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.

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

Blanton, Smiley

48.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward