Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the beauty of the soul.

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Love

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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

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

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

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

10.

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

Ice T

11.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

12.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

13.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

14.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

15.

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

Hugo, Victor

16.

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

Ovid

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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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.

19.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

20.

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

Proust, Marcel

21.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

22.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

23.

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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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

25.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

26.

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

27.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

28.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Lennon, John

30.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

31.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

32.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

33.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

34.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

38.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

39.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

40.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

43.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

44.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

45.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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

Margaret Cho

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

48.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

49.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.