Motivational Quotes

Love

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Love

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Mother Teresa

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

10.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

11.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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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

13.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

14.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

15.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

16.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

17.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

18.

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

19.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

20.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

21.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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

William Shakespeare

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

25.

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

28.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

29.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Duras, Marguerite

31.

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

32.

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

Mother Teresa

33.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

34.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

35.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

36.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

40.

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

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

42.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

45.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug