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

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

10.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

11.

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

12.

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

Peter Ustinov

14.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

15.

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

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

17.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

19.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Hay, Louise L.

21.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

24.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

25.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

28.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

29.

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

30.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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

Aristotle

32.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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

Rita Rudner

35.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

36.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

37.

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

Randy K. Milholland

38.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

39.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

40.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

41.

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

42.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

44.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

45.

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

Scott Westerfeld

46.

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

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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

48.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

49.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

50.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld