Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Love

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

11.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Ice T

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Delp, Alexis

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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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 you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Buddha

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

33.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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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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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting