Motivational Quotes

Love

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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.

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

Law, William

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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

10.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

11.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

12.

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

Disney, Walt

13.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

15.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

16.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

17.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

18.

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

19.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

21.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

22.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

23.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

24.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

25.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

26.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

27.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

28.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

31.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

32.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.

34.

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

Croft, Roy

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

37.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

39.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

40.

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

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

42.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

45.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

48.

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

49.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.