Motivational Quotes

Love

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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Best Quotes about Love

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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

Wilde, Oscar

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

10.

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

Bible

11.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

12.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

13.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

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

16.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

17.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

18.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

19.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

20.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

21.

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

22.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

23.

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

Behn, Aphra

24.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

25.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

26.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

27.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

28.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

29.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

30.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

31.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

32.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

33.

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

Harrigan, John

34.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

35.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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

37.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

38.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

39.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

40.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

41.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

42.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

43.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

44.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

45.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

46.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

47.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Pilgrim, Peace

50.

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