Motivational Quotes

Love

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Love

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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

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

West, Mae

11.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

13.

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

Law, William

14.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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

16.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

17.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

18.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

19.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

20.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

21.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

22.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

23.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

24.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

25.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

26.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

27.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

28.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

29.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

30.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

31.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

32.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

33.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

34.

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

Leunig, Michael

35.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

36.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

37.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

40.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

41.

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

42.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

43.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

44.

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

Hazlitt, William

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

46.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

47.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

48.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

49.

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

Bible

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David