Motivational Quotes

Love

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

10.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

11.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

12.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

13.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

14.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

15.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

16.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

17.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

18.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

19.

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

Mcdonald, George

20.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

23.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

24.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Anderson, Margaret

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

27.

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

28.

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

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

30.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

31.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

32.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

33.

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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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

35.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

36.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

37.

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

Smith, Sydney

38.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

39.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

40.

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

Murdoch, Iris

41.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

42.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

43.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

44.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

46.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

47.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

48.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare