Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

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10.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

11.

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

12.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

13.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

14.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

15.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

16.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

17.

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

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18.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Julie Morgenstern

23.

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

24.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

25.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

26.

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

Davis, Bette

27.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

28.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

29.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

30.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

31.

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

32.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

33.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

34.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

35.

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

Harrigan, John

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

37.

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

Duras, Marguerite

38.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

39.

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

40.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

41.

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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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

43.

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

44.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

45.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

46.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

47.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

48.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

49.

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

50.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel