Motivational Quotes

Love

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

- McKay, John

Best Quotes about Love

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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

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

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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

10.

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

Bertrand Russell

11.

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

12.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

13.

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

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

Behn, Aphra

15.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

17.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

18.

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

Hugo, Victor

19.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

20.

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

21.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

22.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

23.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

24.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

25.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

26.

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.

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

28.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

31.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

32.

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

Elizabeth Aston

33.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

34.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

35.

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

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

38.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

41.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

42.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

43.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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

45.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

46.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

47.

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

Anderson, Margaret

48.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

49.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre