Motivational Quotes

Love

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

- Diane Ackerman

Best Quotes about Love

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Aragon, Louis

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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

Osgood, Samuel

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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

Randy K. Milholland

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

10.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

11.

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

12.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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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.

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

17.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

19.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

23.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

24.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

25.

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

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

27.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

28.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

29.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

30.

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

Duras, Marguerite

31.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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.

33.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

34.

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

Byron, Lord

35.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

36.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

37.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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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

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

40.

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

Hugo, Victor

41.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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

Lennon, John

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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.

44.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

45.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

47.

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

Proverb, Jewish

48.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

49.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

50.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.