Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

- Macarius of Egypt, St.

Best Quotes about Love

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

10.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

12.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

13.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

14.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

15.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

16.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

17.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

19.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

20.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

21.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

22.

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.

23.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

24.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

25.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

26.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

27.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

28.

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

Lao-Tzu

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

30.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

31.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

32.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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.

35.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

39.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

40.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

41.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

42.

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

Euripides

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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

44.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

47.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

48.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

49.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La