Motivational Quotes

Love

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Love

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

10.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

11.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

16.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

17.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

18.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

19.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

20.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

21.

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

22.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

23.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

24.

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

25.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

26.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

27.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

28.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

29.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

30.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

31.

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.

32.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

Mencken, H. L.

34.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

35.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

36.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

37.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

38.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

39.

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

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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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.

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

43.

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

Shakespeare, William

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

47.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

48.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.