Motivational Quotes

Love

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

- Rita Rudner

Best Quotes about Love

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

Buscaglia, Leo

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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

Wilde, Oscar

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

10.

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

11.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

12.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

13.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

14.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

16.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

17.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

18.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

19.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

20.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

22.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

23.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

24.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

25.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

26.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

27.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

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

Osgood, Samuel

30.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

31.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

32.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

33.

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

Bible

34.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

35.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

36.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

37.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

38.

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

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Pilgrim, Peace

41.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Voltaire

43.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

44.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

45.

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

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

Traherne, Thomas

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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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.

49.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

50.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael