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

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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 the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Brown, David

10.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

11.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

12.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

13.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

15.

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

16.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

17.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

18.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

19.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

20.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

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

Hay, Louise L.

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

24.

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

25.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

26.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

29.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

30.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

31.

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.

32.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

33.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

34.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

35.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

38.

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

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

40.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

41.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

42.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

47.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

48.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

49.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

50.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo