Motivational Quotes

Love

Love alone could waken love.

- Buck, Pearl S.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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

Jean Anouilh

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

10.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

11.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

12.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

13.

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

William Shakespeare

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

16.

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

18.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

19.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

20.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

21.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

22.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

23.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

24.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

25.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

26.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

27.

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

28.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

29.

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

30.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

31.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

32.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

33.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

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

Dyer, Wayne

35.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

36.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

37.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

38.

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

Toni Morrison

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

40.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

42.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

43.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

44.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

45.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

46.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.