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

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

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Murdoch, Iris

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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.

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

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

Plato

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

11.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

12.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

13.

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.

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

17.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

18.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

19.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

20.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

21.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

22.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

23.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

24.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

25.

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

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Hugo, Victor

28.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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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

30.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

33.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

35.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

37.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

38.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

39.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

40.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

41.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

42.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

45.

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

Duras, Marguerite

46.

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

47.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

48.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

49.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

50.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette