Motivational Quotes

Love

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

- Levine, Stephen

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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

William Shakespeare

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

10.

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

Davies, Robertson

11.

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

Tracy, Brian

12.

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

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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

Murdoch, Iris

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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.

16.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

19.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

23.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Bible

25.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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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

29.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

30.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

32.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

33.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

34.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

35.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

36.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

37.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

38.

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

Jerome, St.

39.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

41.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

42.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Petrarch, Francesco

44.

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.

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

46.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

48.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

49.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.