Motivational Quotes

Love

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Love

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

10.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

11.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

12.

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

Jeanne Moreau

13.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

14.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

15.

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

16.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

17.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

18.

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

J. K. Rowling

19.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

20.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

21.

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

22.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

23.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

25.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

26.

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

Mother Teresa

27.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

29.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

30.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

31.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

32.

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

Ice T

33.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

34.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

35.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

36.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

37.

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

38.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

39.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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