Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

- Northern Exposure

Best Quotes about Love

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Croft, Roy

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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

10.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

11.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

12.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

13.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

15.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

16.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

17.

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

18.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

19.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

20.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

21.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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

Anderson, Margaret

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

Bible

24.

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

Murdoch, Iris

25.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

26.

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

Sophocles

27.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

28.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

29.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

30.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

31.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

33.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

34.

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

Hugo, Victor

35.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Jerome, St.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

40.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

41.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

42.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

43.

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

Alan Watts

44.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

49.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.