Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Love

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

10.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

11.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

12.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

13.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

14.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

15.

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

16.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

17.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

19.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

20.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

21.

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

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

23.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

24.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

26.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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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

28.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

29.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

30.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

31.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

32.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

33.

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

Brown, David

34.

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

Bridges, Robert

35.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

36.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

37.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

38.

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

Disney, Walt

39.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

40.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

42.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

43.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

44.

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

45.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

46.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

William Shakespeare

48.

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.