Motivational Quotes

Love

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

10.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

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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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

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

William Shakespeare

15.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

16.

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

Bible

17.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

18.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

19.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

20.

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

21.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

23.

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

Burton, Robert

24.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

25.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

26.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

27.

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

28.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

29.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

31.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

32.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

33.

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

Davies, Robertson

34.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

35.

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

Buddha

36.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

40.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

42.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

43.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

44.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

45.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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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.

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.