Motivational Quotes

Love

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

- Anouilh, Jean

Best Quotes about Love

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

10.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

11.

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

Wieder, Marcia

12.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

14.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

15.

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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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

22.

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

23.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

26.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

27.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

28.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

29.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Hay, Louise L.

31.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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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

33.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

34.

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

35.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

36.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

40.

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

Bible

41.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

42.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

43.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

44.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

45.

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

Proverb, Irish

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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

47.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

48.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

49.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

50.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De