Motivational Quotes

Love

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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Best Quotes about Love

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

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

10.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

11.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

12.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

13.

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

14.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

15.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

16.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

17.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

18.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

19.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

23.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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

Voltaire

25.

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

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

29.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

30.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

31.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

32.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

33.

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

Bible

34.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

35.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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

Victor Hugo

37.

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

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

39.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

40.

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

Bible

41.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

42.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

44.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

45.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

48.

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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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.