Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

- Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

Best Quotes about Love

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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

Euripides

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Desai, Yogi

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

10.

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

Hazlitt, William

11.

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

12.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

15.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

16.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

17.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

18.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

19.

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

20.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

21.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

22.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

23.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

24.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

25.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

26.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

27.

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

28.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

29.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

30.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

31.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

32.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

33.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

34.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

35.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

36.

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

Croft, Roy

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

40.

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.

41.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

42.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

44.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

45.

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

Voltaire

46.

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

William Shakespeare

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

49.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon