Motivational Quotes

Love

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

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Best Quotes about Love

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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

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

Elizabeth Aston

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

10.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

11.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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

W. Somerset Maugham

14.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

15.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Jerome, St.

17.

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

William Penn

18.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

19.

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 is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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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.

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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.

23.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

27.

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

28.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

29.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

30.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

31.

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

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

33.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

36.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

37.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

40.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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

42.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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