Motivational Quotes

Love

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

- Osgood, Samuel

Best Quotes about Love

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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

Williams, William Carlos

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

Plato

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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

Kent, Sister Corita

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Jean Anouilh

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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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

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

Wilkerson, David

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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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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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Leunig, Michael

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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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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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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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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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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

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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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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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle