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

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

10.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

11.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

12.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

13.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

16.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

17.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

18.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

19.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

21.

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.

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Kent, Sister Corita

24.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

25.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

26.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

27.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

29.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

30.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

31.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

32.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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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

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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.

35.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

36.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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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

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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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.

40.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

41.

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

Osgood, Samuel

42.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

43.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

45.

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

46.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

47.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

48.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

49.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.