Motivational Quotes

Love

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Love

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Leunig, Michael

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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

Dickinson, Emily

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Scherer, Paul

10.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

11.

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

Wilde, Kim

12.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

13.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

14.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

15.

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

Tomlin, Lily

16.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

21.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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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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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

28.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

29.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

30.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

31.

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

32.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

34.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

38.

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.

39.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

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.

41.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

42.

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

Randy K. Milholland

43.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

44.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

46.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis