Motivational Quotes

Love

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

- Stendhal, Henri B.

Best Quotes about Love

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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

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

Wieder, Marcia

10.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

11.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

12.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

13.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

14.

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

15.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

16.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

17.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

18.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

21.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

22.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

25.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

26.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

27.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

28.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

29.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

30.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

31.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

32.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

33.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

34.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

35.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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

Jeph Jacques

37.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

44.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

45.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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