Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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

Bible

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

Mansfield, Katherine

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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

Dane, Frank

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

Pilgrim, Peace

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

10.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

11.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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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

14.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

15.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

16.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

18.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

20.

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

Vicious, Sid

21.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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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.

23.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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

Reik, Theodor

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

30.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

31.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

35.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

36.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

43.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]