Motivational Quotes

Love

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

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Best Quotes about Love

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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

Durrell, Lawrence

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

10.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

11.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

12.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

13.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

14.

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

15.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

16.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

17.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

18.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

19.

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

20.

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

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

22.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

23.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

24.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

25.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

26.

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

Layton, Irving

27.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

28.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

29.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

30.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

32.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

33.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

34.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

35.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

36.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

37.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

40.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

41.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

42.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

43.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

44.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

45.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

46.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

47.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

48.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

49.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

50.

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