Motivational Quotes

Love

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

- John of the Cross, St.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Bacon, Francis

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

John of the Cross, St.

11.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

12.

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

13.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

14.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

15.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

17.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

18.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

21.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

22.

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

23.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

24.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

25.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

26.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

27.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

28.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

29.

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

Aristotle

30.

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

Du Coeur

31.

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

Brown, David

32.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

34.

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

35.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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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

41.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

42.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

45.

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

Sophocles

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.