Motivational Quotes

Love

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Love

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

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

Traherne, Thomas

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Proverb, Jewish

11.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

12.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

13.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

14.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

15.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

16.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

17.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

19.

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

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

23.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

24.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

26.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

27.

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

Ice T

28.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

31.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

32.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

33.

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

34.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

35.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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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.

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

38.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

39.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

40.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

42.

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

43.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Augustine, St.

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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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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?