Motivational Quotes

Love

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Love

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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

Clark, Melanie

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Leunig, Michael

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

Aristotle

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

10.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

11.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

12.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

13.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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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

15.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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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

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

Bible

18.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

19.

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

Davies, Robertson

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

21.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

22.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

24.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

25.

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

26.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

27.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

31.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

32.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

33.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

34.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

35.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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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

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

William Shakespeare

38.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

40.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

41.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

42.

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

Rossetti, Christina

43.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

44.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

45.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

46.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

47.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

50.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare