Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Gogh, Vincent Van

Best Quotes about Love

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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

Hugo, Victor

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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

Blanton, Smiley

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

Elizabeth Aston

18.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

19.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

21.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

23.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

24.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

25.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

27.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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

Auvil, Myrtle

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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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

33.

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

Chanel, Coco

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

35.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

41.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

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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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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green