Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Wilkerson, David

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

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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

William Shakespeare

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

13.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

14.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

17.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Carroll, Pat

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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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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.

21.

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

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

24.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

25.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

29.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

30.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

33.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

34.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

35.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

40.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

41.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

42.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

43.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

44.

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

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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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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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