Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

- Scherer, Paul

Best Quotes about Love

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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

Osgood, Samuel

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

Donne, John

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

11.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

13.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

19.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

20.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

21.

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

Desai, Yogi

22.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

25.

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

26.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

27.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

29.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

30.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

31.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

32.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

33.

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

William Shakespeare

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

37.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

38.

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

39.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

40.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

41.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

42.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.