Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Burton, Robert

Best Quotes about Love

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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

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

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

10.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

11.

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

12.

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

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

15.

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

John of the Cross, St.

16.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

17.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

18.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

19.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

21.

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

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

25.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

26.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

27.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

28.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

29.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

30.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

31.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

32.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

34.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

35.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

37.

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

38.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

39.

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

40.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

41.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

42.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

44.

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

Duras, Marguerite

45.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

46.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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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

48.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

50.

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

Murdoch, Iris