Motivational Quotes

Love

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

11.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

12.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

13.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

14.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

15.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

16.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

19.

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

Tomlin, Lily

20.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

21.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

26.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

27.

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

28.

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

Jennifer Aniston

29.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

30.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

31.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

32.

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

Law, William

33.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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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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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

38.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

39.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

40.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

41.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

42.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

43.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

44.

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

Updike, John

45.

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.

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

47.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

48.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

49.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco