Motivational Quotes

Love

Love, while you are able to love.

- Frieligrath, A.

Best Quotes about Love

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

10.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

11.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

12.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

13.

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

Charles M. Schulz

14.

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

Dickinson, Emily

15.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

16.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

17.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

18.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

20.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

21.

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

Brown, David

22.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

23.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

24.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

25.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

27.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

28.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

31.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

32.

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

Kempis, Thomas

33.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

35.

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

36.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

39.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

42.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

45.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

48.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

49.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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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.

Rainer Maria Rilke