Motivational Quotes

Love

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Love

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

10.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

11.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

12.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

13.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

14.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

15.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

17.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

18.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

19.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

20.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

21.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

22.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

23.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

24.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

25.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

27.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

28.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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

William Shakespeare

30.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

31.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

33.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

34.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

36.

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

37.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

38.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

39.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

40.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

41.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

42.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

43.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

45.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

46.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

47.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

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

49.

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

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas