Motivational Quotes

Love

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

- Donne, John

Best Quotes about Love

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

10.

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

11.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

12.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

13.

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

Sophocles

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

16.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

17.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

18.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

19.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

20.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

21.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

22.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

23.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

24.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

25.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

26.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

27.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

28.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

29.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

32.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

33.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

34.

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

Brooke, Rupert

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

36.

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

37.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

38.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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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

40.

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

Byron, Lord

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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

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

43.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

44.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

45.

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

46.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

47.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

48.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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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

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.