Motivational Quotes

Love

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Love

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

Nathan, George Jean

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

10.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

11.

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

12.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

14.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

16.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

17.

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

William Penn

18.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

19.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

20.

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

Bacon, Francis

21.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

23.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

24.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

25.

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

26.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

27.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

28.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

29.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

31.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

32.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

33.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

34.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

35.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

36.

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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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.

38.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

39.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

40.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

41.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

43.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

44.

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

45.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

46.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.