Motivational Quotes

Love

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.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Irving, Washington

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Youngman, Henny

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

Aragon, Louis

11.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

13.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

14.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

15.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

18.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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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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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

21.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

22.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

27.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

28.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

29.

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

30.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

31.

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

Brookner, Anita

32.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

33.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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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

35.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

41.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

43.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

44.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

45.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

46.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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

James, William

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare