Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

- Viorst, Judith

Best Quotes about Love

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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

Capote, Truman

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

Aristotle

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

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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

William Shakespeare

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.

10.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

12.

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

13.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

14.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

15.

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

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

18.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

19.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

20.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

21.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

24.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

26.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

27.

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

Eucharista Ward

28.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

29.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

30.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

32.

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

Murdoch, Iris

33.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

34.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

35.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

39.

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

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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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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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

44.

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.

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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

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

Bertrand Russell

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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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

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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

Byron, Lord