Motivational Quotes

Love

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

- Delp, Alexis

Best Quotes about Love

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

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

Byron, Lord

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

10.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

11.

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.

12.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

13.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

14.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

17.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

18.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

21.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

22.

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

23.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Bible

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

26.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

27.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

28.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

29.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

30.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

31.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

32.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

33.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

34.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

37.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

40.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

41.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

42.

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

Tomlin, Lily

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

45.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

49.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

50.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William