Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

10.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

11.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

12.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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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

14.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Jeanne Moreau

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

17.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

18.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

19.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

20.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

21.

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

Bacon, Francis

22.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

23.

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

24.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

25.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

26.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

27.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

28.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

31.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

32.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

34.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

35.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

36.

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

37.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

38.

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

Du Coeur

39.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

40.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

41.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

42.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

43.

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

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

45.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

48.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

49.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

50.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams