Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Rabbi Julius Gordon

Best Quotes about Love

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

W. Somerset Maugham

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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

Croft, Roy

10.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

11.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

12.

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

Allen, Woody

13.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

14.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

15.

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

16.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

17.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

18.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

19.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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

Aristotle

21.

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

Nathan, George Jean

22.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

25.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

26.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

27.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

28.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

30.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

31.

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.

32.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

33.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Lennon, John

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

39.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

40.

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

41.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Williams, William Carlos

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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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

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

49.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John