Motivational Quotes

Love

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Love

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

10.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

11.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

12.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

13.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

15.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

16.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

17.

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

Hay, Louise L.

18.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

19.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

20.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

21.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

23.

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

Croft, Roy

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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 seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

26.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

27.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

28.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

29.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

30.

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

31.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

32.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

33.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

34.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

35.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

38.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

40.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

41.

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

Bible

42.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

43.

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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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

45.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

46.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

49.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman