Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Auerbach, Red

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

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

Anouilh, Jean

10.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

11.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

12.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

13.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

14.

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

15.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

17.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

18.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

19.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

20.

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

21.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

22.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

23.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

24.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

25.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

26.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

27.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

28.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

29.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

30.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

31.

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

Verse, A Haiku

32.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

33.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

35.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

36.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

37.

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

Mother Teresa

38.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

39.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

40.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

42.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

43.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

44.

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