Motivational Quotes

Love

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

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

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Jeanne Moreau

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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

Turner, Ted

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

Ovid

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

10.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

11.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

12.

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

Anderson, Margaret

13.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

14.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

18.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

19.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

21.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

22.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

23.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

24.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

25.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

26.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

30.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

31.

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

Burton, Robert

32.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

33.

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

Bible

34.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

35.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

36.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

41.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

42.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

43.

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

Brown, Les

44.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

45.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

46.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

47.

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

Hay, Louise L.

48.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

49.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

50.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og