Motivational Quotes

Love

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Love

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

Lewis, Sinclair

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

11.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

12.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

15.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

16.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

17.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

18.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

19.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

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

21.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

24.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

25.

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

Martineau, Harriet

26.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

28.

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

29.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

30.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

31.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

32.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

33.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

35.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

36.

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

Aristotle

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

38.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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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

42.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

46.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

48.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

49.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

50.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov