Motivational Quotes

Love

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Love

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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

Margaret Cho

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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

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

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Steindl-Rast, David

10.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

13.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

15.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

17.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

18.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

19.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

20.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

21.

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

Hugo, Victor

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

23.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

24.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

25.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

26.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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

28.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

29.

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

Wilkerson, David

30.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Williams, William Carlos

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

Bible

34.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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

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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

37.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

38.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

39.

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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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

Croft, Roy

42.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

43.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

44.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

45.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

46.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

47.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

49.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

50.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham