Motivational Quotes

Love

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

- Bernard, St.

Best Quotes about Love

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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

Voltaire

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

10.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

11.

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

12.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

13.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

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

Ovid

15.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

16.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

17.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

18.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

19.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

20.

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

Peguy, Charles

21.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

22.

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

Davis, Bette

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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

24.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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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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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

28.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

29.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

30.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

31.

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

Sophocles

32.

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

33.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

34.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

36.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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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

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

40.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

41.

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

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

43.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

44.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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