Motivational Quotes

Love

Do all things with love.

- Mandino, Og

Best Quotes about Love

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

10.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

11.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

12.

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

Peter Ustinov

13.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

14.

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

15.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

16.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

17.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

19.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

21.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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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

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

Wilkerson, David

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

27.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

28.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

29.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

30.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

31.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

33.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

34.

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

Seneca

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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

John Sheffield

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

39.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

40.

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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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

42.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

43.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

44.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

45.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

46.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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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.

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

49.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward