Motivational Quotes

Love

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

- Behn, Aphra

Best Quotes about Love

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

11.

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

Hugo, Victor

12.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

13.

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

14.

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

Youngman, Henny

15.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

16.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

17.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

18.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

20.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

25.

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

Donne, John

26.

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

Proverb, Japanese

27.

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

Law, William

28.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

29.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

30.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

31.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

32.

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

Leunig, Michael

33.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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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

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

40.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

41.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

42.

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

Tomlin, Lily

43.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

46.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

47.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

48.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

49.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

50.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie