Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Penn

Best Quotes about Love

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

10.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

11.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

12.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

13.

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

14.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

15.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

17.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

18.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

20.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

21.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

24.

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

Ovid

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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

26.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

30.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

31.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

32.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

33.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

34.

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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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

37.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

38.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

41.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

43.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

44.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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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.

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson