Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

- Blanton, Smiley

Best Quotes about Love

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

11.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

12.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

13.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

14.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

18.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

19.

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

20.

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

21.

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

Paolo Giordano

22.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

23.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

25.

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

David Viscott

26.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

27.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

28.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

29.

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.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

31.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

32.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

35.

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

Capote, Truman

36.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

37.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

39.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

40.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

44.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

45.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

46.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

47.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

48.

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

49.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May