Motivational Quotes

Love

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

- Arnold, Sir Edwin

Best Quotes about Love

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

10.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

11.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

12.

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.

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

15.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

16.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

18.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

19.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

20.

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

Laing, R. D.

21.

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

22.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

23.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

24.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

25.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

26.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

27.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

28.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

29.

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

30.

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

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

33.

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

Aristotle

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

36.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

39.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

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

Hugo, Victor

41.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

44.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

45.

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

46.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

47.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

48.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

49.

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

William Shakespeare

50.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith