Motivational Quotes

Love

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Love

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

12.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

13.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

14.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

15.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

16.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

17.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

18.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

19.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

20.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

21.

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

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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

23.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

24.

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

Brooke, Rupert

25.

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

26.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

27.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

28.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

29.

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

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

33.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

36.

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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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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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

39.

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

40.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

41.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

42.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

43.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

44.

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

Plato

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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

Duffy, Maureen

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

49.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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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