Motivational Quotes

Love

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Love

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

10.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

11.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

12.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

13.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

14.

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

Jeanne Moreau

15.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

16.

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

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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

Lao-Tzu

19.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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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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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

22.

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

Ackerman, Diane

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

24.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

25.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

27.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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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

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

30.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

31.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

35.

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

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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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

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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

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

Sophocles

42.

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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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

44.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

45.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

46.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

47.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

49.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

50.

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