Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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

Elizabeth Aston

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

10.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

11.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

12.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

13.

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.

14.

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

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

17.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

18.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

19.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

20.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

21.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

22.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

25.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

27.

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

Mooneyham, Stan

28.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

30.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

32.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

33.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

34.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

35.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

37.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

38.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

39.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

40.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

41.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

42.

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

43.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

44.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

45.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

46.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

47.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

48.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

49.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

50.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest