Motivational Quotes

Love

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

- Jerome, Jerome K.

Best Quotes about Love

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Tracy, Brian

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

11.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

12.

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

Scott Westerfeld

13.

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

Heinlein, Robert

14.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

16.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

17.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

18.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

19.

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

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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

Marlowe, Christopher

25.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

27.

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

28.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

29.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

31.

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

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

35.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

36.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

37.

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

Du Coeur

38.

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

Delp, Alexis

39.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

40.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

41.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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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

43.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

44.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les