Motivational Quotes

Love

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Love

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

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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

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

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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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

12.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

13.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

14.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

15.

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

Shakespeare, William

16.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

17.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

18.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

19.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

21.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

22.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

24.

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

Bailey, Pearl

25.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

28.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

29.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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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

33.

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

Proverb, French

34.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

35.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

36.

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

Bible

37.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

39.

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.

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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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

42.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

43.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

44.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

45.

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

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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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

49.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.