Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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

Bible

10.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

11.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

12.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

13.

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

Peter Ustinov

14.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

15.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

18.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

Buddha

21.

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

Plato

22.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

23.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

24.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

25.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

26.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

27.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

28.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

29.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

30.

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

Diane Ackerman

31.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

32.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

33.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

34.

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

35.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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

Law, William

38.

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

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

40.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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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

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

44.

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

National Lampoon

45.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

46.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

47.

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

Allen, Woody

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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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

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim