Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

- Spencer, Herbert

Best Quotes about Love

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

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

10.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

11.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

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.

13.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

14.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

18.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Swift, Jonathan

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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

Margaret Cho

25.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Levine, Stephen

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

Buddha

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

33.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Connolly, Cyril

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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

Nathan, George Jean

40.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

42.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

43.

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

Proverb, Irish

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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

49.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese