Motivational Quotes

Love

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Love

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Verse, A Haiku

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Ovid

10.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

11.

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

Bible

12.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

13.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

14.

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

David Viscott

15.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

16.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

17.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

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

19.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

20.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

21.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

22.

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

Bible

23.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

26.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

27.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

28.

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

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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

30.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

31.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

32.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

33.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

34.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

35.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

36.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

37.

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

38.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

41.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

42.

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

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

45.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

46.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.