Motivational Quotes

Love

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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

Harrigan, John

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

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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

Capote, Truman

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

10.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

11.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

12.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

13.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

14.

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

15.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

16.

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

Diane Ackerman

17.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

18.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

21.

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

22.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

24.

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

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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

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

27.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

28.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

29.

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

John of the Cross, St.

30.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

32.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

33.

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

34.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

35.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

36.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

37.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

38.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

39.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

41.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

42.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

44.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

45.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

46.

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

47.

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

48.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

49.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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

Buddha