Motivational Quotes

Love

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

- Paolo Giordano

Best Quotes about Love

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Nathan, George Jean

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

10.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

11.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

12.

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

13.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

14.

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

Anderson, Margaret

15.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

17.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

18.

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.

19.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

20.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

21.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

22.

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

23.

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

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

25.

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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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

27.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

28.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

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

32.

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

Sarton, May

33.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

34.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

35.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

36.

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

37.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

38.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

40.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

41.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

42.

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

Alan Watts

43.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

44.

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

Mcdonald, George

45.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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Love is stronger than justice.