Motivational Quotes

Love

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Connolly, Cyril

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

11.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

12.

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

13.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

14.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

15.

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

Croft, Roy

16.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

17.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

18.

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

19.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

20.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

21.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Sophocles

24.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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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

26.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

28.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

29.

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

Verse, A Haiku

30.

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

Hugo, Victor

31.

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

William Shakespeare

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

33.

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

Buber, Martin

34.

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

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

37.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

38.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

40.

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

41.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

42.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

43.

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

Bailey, Pearl

44.

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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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

46.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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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.

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

49.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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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