Motivational Quotes

Love

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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

Peter Ustinov

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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

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

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

10.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

11.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

13.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

14.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

15.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

17.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

21.

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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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

23.

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

24.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

25.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

27.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

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

29.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

30.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

31.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

32.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

33.

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

Horton, Doug

34.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

35.

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

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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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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.

38.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

39.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

40.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

41.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

42.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

43.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

44.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

45.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Capote, Truman

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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

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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.