Motivational Quotes

Love

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

- Updike, John

Best Quotes about Love

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Durrell, Lawrence

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

10.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

11.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

12.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

13.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

14.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

15.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

16.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

17.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

18.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

19.

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

20.

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

Behn, Aphra

21.

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

22.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

23.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

24.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

25.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

27.

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

28.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

29.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

30.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

31.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

32.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

33.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

34.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

35.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

36.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

37.

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

38.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

39.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

41.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

42.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

43.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

46.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

47.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

48.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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