Motivational Quotes

Love

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

- Child, Lydia M.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

10.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

11.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

12.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

13.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

14.

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.

15.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

18.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

22.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

24.

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

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

27.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

28.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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

Mencken, H. L.

31.

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

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

33.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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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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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

36.

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

37.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

38.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

39.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.