Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

- Ardele, Jean Anouilh

Best Quotes about Love

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

10.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Croft, Roy

12.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

13.

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

Groening, Matt

14.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

15.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

16.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

17.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

18.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

20.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

24.

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.

25.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

26.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

27.

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

28.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

29.

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

Disney, Walt

30.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

31.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

32.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

34.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

35.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

37.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

38.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

39.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

40.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

41.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

42.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

43.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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

Scherer, Paul

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