Motivational Quotes

Love

Do all things with love.

- Mandino, Og

Best Quotes about Love

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

10.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

11.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

12.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

13.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

14.

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

Sand, George

15.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

16.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

17.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

18.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

19.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

20.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

21.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

22.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

23.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

24.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

25.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

27.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

28.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

29.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

30.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

31.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

32.

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

33.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

34.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

35.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

36.

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

Jane Austen

37.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

38.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

39.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

41.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

43.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

44.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

45.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther