Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- John of the Cross, St.

Best Quotes about Love

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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

Aristotle

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

Sophocles

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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

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

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

Youngman, Henny

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

10.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

11.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

12.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

13.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

14.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

17.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

18.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

20.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

21.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

22.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

23.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

24.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

25.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

28.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

29.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

30.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

31.

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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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

34.

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

Ovid

35.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

36.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

37.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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

Bourget, Paul

40.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

46.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

47.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

49.

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

50.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche