Motivational Quotes

Love

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Love

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

11.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

12.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

13.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

14.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

15.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

16.

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

17.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

18.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

20.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

21.

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

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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

23.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

24.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

25.

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

Levine, Stephen

26.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

27.

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

Bible

28.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

30.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

31.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

33.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

34.

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

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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

36.

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

Smith, Sydney

37.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

40.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

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

Leunig, Michael

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

44.

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

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

46.

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

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

Augustine, St.

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.