Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Love

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

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Reik, Theodor

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

11.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

13.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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

Horton, Doug

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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

Tomlin, Lily

17.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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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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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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

Hazlitt, William

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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

Traherne, Thomas

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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

30.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

31.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

33.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

34.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Jewish

38.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

40.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

42.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

43.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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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.

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare