Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the beauty of the soul.

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Love

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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

Plato

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

10.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

11.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Hugo, Victor

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

17.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

18.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

19.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

20.

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.

21.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

22.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

23.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

24.

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

25.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

26.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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

Sophocles

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Wieder, Marcia

31.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

32.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

33.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

34.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

35.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

36.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

39.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

40.

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

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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

Bacon, Francis

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

47.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

48.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

49.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William