Motivational Quotes

Love

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Love

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

10.

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

11.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Proverb, Japanese

14.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

15.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

16.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

17.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

18.

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

19.

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

20.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

21.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

22.

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

Carl Jung

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

24.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

25.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

28.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

29.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

30.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

31.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

32.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

33.

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

34.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

35.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

36.

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

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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

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

39.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

40.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

42.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

44.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

45.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

46.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

47.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.