Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Traherne, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Lennon, John

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

11.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

12.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

13.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

14.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

15.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

16.

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

Julie Morgenstern

17.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

18.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

19.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

20.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

21.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

22.

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

23.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

25.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

26.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

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

Levine, Stephen

28.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

31.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

32.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

33.

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

34.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

35.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

40.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

41.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

42.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

45.

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

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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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

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne