Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

- Wilkerson, David

Best Quotes about Love

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Menninger, Karl A.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Donne, John

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

11.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Levine, Stephen

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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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

16.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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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

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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

Vicious, Sid

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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.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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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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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

33.

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

Bible

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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

35.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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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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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

44.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell