Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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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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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.

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Murdoch, Iris

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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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

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Traherne, Thomas

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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

Leunig, Michael

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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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

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine