Motivational Quotes

Love

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Love

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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

Capote, Truman

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Ferry, Brian

10.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

11.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

12.

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

13.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

14.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

16.

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

17.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

18.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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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

22.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

24.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

25.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

26.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

27.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

28.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

29.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

30.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

31.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

32.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

33.

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

Blanton, Smiley

34.

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

35.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

36.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

37.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

38.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

39.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

40.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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

42.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

43.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

44.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

45.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

46.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

47.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

49.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

50.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor