Motivational Quotes

Love

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Love

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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

Du Coeur

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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

William Shakespeare

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

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Brooke, Rupert

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

10.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

12.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

13.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

14.

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

15.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

18.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

19.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

20.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

23.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

24.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

26.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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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.

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

29.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

30.

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.

31.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

32.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

33.

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

Paolo Giordano

34.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

37.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

38.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

39.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

42.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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.

Davis, Bette

44.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

45.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

46.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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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

49.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

50.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte