Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

- Stael, Germaine De

Best Quotes about Love

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

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

10.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

11.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

12.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

14.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

15.

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

Carroll, Pat

16.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

17.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

18.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

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

22.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

23.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

24.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

25.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

26.

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

27.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

28.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

29.

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

Law, William

30.

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

Bacon, Francis

31.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

32.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

33.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

34.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

35.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

36.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

37.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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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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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

44.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

45.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

46.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

47.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

49.

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

50.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier