Motivational Quotes

Love

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Love

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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

Seneca

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

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

Nathan, George Jean

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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

10.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

11.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

12.

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

Wilde, Oscar

13.

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

14.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

15.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

17.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

18.

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

Fromm, Erich

19.

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

Behn, Aphra

20.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

21.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

22.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

23.

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

Murdoch, Iris

24.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

25.

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

Proust, Marcel

26.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

27.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

28.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

29.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

30.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

31.

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

32.

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

33.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

34.

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

Jerome, St.

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

38.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

39.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

40.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

41.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

42.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

43.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

44.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

46.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

48.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

49.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og