Motivational Quotes

Love

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

- Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

10.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

11.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

12.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

13.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

James, William

16.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

17.

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

Chanel, Coco

18.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

19.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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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 means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

22.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

23.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

24.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

25.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

26.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

28.

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

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

30.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

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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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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

Desai, Yogi

36.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

37.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

38.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

39.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

40.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

41.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

45.

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

Barry, Lynda

46.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

48.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

49.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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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