Motivational Quotes

Love

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Love

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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

Behn, Aphra

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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

Davis, Bette

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

10.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

11.

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

Rowland, Helen

12.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

13.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

14.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

15.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

16.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

19.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

20.

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

Dickinson, Emily

21.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

22.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

24.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

25.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

28.

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

Alan Watts

29.

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.

30.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

31.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

32.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

33.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

34.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

36.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

38.

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

Hugo, Victor

39.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

40.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

42.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

43.

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

44.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

45.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

47.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

48.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

49.

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

William Shakespeare

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van