Motivational Quotes

Love

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

- Hayes, Helen

Best Quotes about Love

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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

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

William Shakespeare

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Guthrie, Arlo

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

10.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

11.

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

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Martineau, Harriet

14.

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

Euripides

15.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

16.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

18.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

19.

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

20.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

21.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

22.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

23.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

24.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

25.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

26.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

27.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

28.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

29.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

30.

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

Disney, Walt

31.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

32.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

33.

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

Michael Patrick King

34.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

35.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

36.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

38.

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

Randy K. Milholland

39.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

40.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

41.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

42.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

43.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

44.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

45.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

46.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

47.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

48.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

49.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T