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

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Laing, R. D.

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

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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

Nathan, George Jean

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

10.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb

13.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

14.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

15.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

16.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

17.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

18.

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

19.

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

James, William

20.

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

Reik, Theodor

21.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

22.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

23.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

24.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

25.

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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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

28.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

31.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

32.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

33.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

35.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

38.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

39.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

40.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

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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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

43.

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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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

45.

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

46.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

47.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

48.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

49.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

50.

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