Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Layton, Irving

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

Lawrence, D. H.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

10.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

11.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

12.

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

13.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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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

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

16.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

17.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

18.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

19.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

20.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

21.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

22.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

23.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

24.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

25.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

27.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

31.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

32.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

33.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

34.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

35.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

38.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

39.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

40.

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

Sophocles

41.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

43.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

45.

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

Buddha

46.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris