Motivational Quotes

Love

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

- Chevalier, Maurice

Best Quotes about Love

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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

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

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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

Mother Teresa

12.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

13.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

15.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

16.

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

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

19.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

20.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

21.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

23.

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

24.

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

Jeanne Moreau

25.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

26.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

29.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

30.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

31.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Horton, Doug

33.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

34.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

35.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

37.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

40.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

41.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

42.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

43.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

44.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

45.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

46.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

47.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.