Motivational Quotes

Love

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

- Mother Teresa

Best Quotes about Love

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Crawford, Joan

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

10.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

11.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

12.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

13.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

14.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

15.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

16.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

17.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

18.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

20.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

21.

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

Clark, Melanie

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

24.

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

Nathan, George Jean

25.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

26.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

27.

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.

28.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

29.

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

30.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

31.

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

32.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

33.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

34.

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

Burton, Robert

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I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

36.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

37.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

38.

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

Tracy, Brian

39.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

40.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

41.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

42.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

43.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

45.

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

46.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

47.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

48.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

49.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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