Motivational Quotes

Love

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

Best Quotes about Love

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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

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

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Voltaire

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

10.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

11.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

12.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

13.

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

14.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

Scherer, Paul

16.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

17.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

18.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

19.

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

Sarton, May

20.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

21.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

22.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Rowland, Helen

24.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

25.

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

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

28.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

29.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

30.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

31.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

32.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

34.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

35.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

36.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

38.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

39.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

40.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

41.

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

42.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

43.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

44.

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

45.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

46.

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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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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