Motivational Quotes

Love

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

- Ardele, Jean Anouilh

Best Quotes about Love

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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

Vicious, Sid

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

10.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

11.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

12.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

13.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

14.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

15.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

16.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

17.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

18.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

19.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

20.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

21.

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

Jerome, St.

22.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

23.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

24.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

25.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

26.

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

27.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

28.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

29.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

30.

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

31.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

32.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

33.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

34.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

35.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

36.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

37.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

38.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

39.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

40.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

41.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

42.

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

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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

44.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

45.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

46.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

47.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

48.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.