Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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

Ovid

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

10.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

11.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

12.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

13.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

16.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

17.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

18.

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

Paolo Giordano

19.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

20.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

21.

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

22.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

23.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

24.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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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 the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

28.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

29.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

30.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

31.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

32.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

33.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

34.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

35.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

36.

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

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

38.

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

Kempis, Thomas

39.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

40.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

41.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

42.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

43.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

45.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

49.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen