Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

- Ardele, Jean Anouilh

Best Quotes about Love

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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

James, William

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

10.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

12.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

13.

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

William Penn

14.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

15.

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

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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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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

18.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

19.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

20.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bible

22.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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

National Lampoon

25.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

27.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

28.

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

Bible

29.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

33.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

34.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

35.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

36.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

40.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

41.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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

Hugo, Victor

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

44.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

48.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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