Motivational Quotes

Love

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

- Meredith, George

Best Quotes about Love

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Calvino, Italo

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Donne, John

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

10.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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

Voltaire

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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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.

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

31.

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

Disney, Walt

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

Wilkerson, David

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

34.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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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.

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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

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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

40.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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

Sand, George

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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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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

49.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare