Motivational Quotes

Love

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

- Tauler, Johannes

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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

William Penn

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Desai, Yogi

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

10.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

11.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

13.

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

14.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

15.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

17.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

18.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

19.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

20.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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

22.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

23.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

24.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

25.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

27.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

28.

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

29.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

32.

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

33.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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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

35.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

36.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

37.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

38.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

39.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

40.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

41.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

42.

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.

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

45.

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

46.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

47.

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

48.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

49.

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

Buddha

50.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare