Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Wilde, Kim

Best Quotes about Love

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

10.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

11.

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

Bible

12.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

13.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

14.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

15.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

16.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

18.

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

Vicious, Sid

19.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

20.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

21.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

25.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

27.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

28.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

29.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

30.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

31.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

32.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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.

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 joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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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

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

39.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

40.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

41.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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

Harrigan, John

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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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman