Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Mcdonald, George

Best Quotes about Love

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

10.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

13.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

14.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

21.

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 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

23.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

24.

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

25.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Rowland, Helen

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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

Nathan, George Jean

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

31.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

32.

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

Carroll, Pat

33.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

34.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

35.

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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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

40.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

41.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.