Motivational Quotes

Love

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

- Jane Austen

Best Quotes about Love

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

Bible

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Stravinsky, Igor

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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

William Shakespeare

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Buber, Martin

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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

Dane, Frank

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

44.

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

Bible

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.