Motivational Quotes

Love

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.

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Best Quotes about Love

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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

Delp, Alexis

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

10.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

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

Turner, Ted

12.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

13.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

14.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

15.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

16.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

17.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

18.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

19.

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

20.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

21.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

22.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

23.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

24.

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

25.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

26.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

27.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

28.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

29.

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

30.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

31.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

32.

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

Wilde, Oscar

33.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

34.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

35.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

36.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

37.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

38.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

39.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

40.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

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

Bible

42.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

44.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

45.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

46.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

48.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

49.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

50.

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

Kent, Sister Corita