Motivational Quotes

Love

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

- Bolen, Jean Shinoda

Best Quotes about Love

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Randy K. Milholland

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

10.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

11.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

12.

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

Clark, Melanie

13.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

14.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

15.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

16.

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

Youngman, Henny

17.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

18.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

19.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

20.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

21.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

22.

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

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

24.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

27.

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

28.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

29.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

31.

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

32.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

33.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

34.

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

35.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

38.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

39.

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

Bible

40.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

41.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

42.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

43.

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

Mencken, H. L.

44.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

45.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

46.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

47.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

49.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

50.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare