Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Crawford, Joan

Best Quotes about Love

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Bible

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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

Burton, Robert

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

10.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

11.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

12.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

13.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

14.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

15.

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

Byron, Lord

16.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

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

Ackerman, Diane

18.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

19.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

20.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

22.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

23.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

24.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

25.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

26.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

27.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

29.

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

30.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

31.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

32.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

33.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

34.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

35.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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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

37.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

38.

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

Barry, Lynda

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

40.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

41.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

43.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

44.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

45.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

46.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.