Motivational Quotes

Love

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

- Fox, Emmet

Best Quotes about Love

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

11.

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

12.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

13.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

15.

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

Voltaire

16.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

17.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

21.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

22.

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

Wilde, Oscar

23.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

24.

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

Vicious, Sid

25.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

26.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

27.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

28.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

29.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

30.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

31.

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

32.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Behn, Aphra

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

35.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

36.

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

Tomlin, Lily

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

38.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

39.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

40.

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

41.

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

Bridges, Robert

42.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

43.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.