Motivational Quotes

Love

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

- Youngman, Henny

Best Quotes about Love

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

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

Real Live Preacher

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

10.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

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

Buddha

12.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

13.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

14.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

15.

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

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

18.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

19.

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

Carmichael, Amy

20.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

21.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

22.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

23.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

25.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

26.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

27.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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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

29.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

31.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

32.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

33.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

34.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

35.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

39.

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

40.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

41.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

42.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

45.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

46.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

50.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann