Motivational Quotes

Love

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

- John of the Cross, St.

Best Quotes about Love

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

10.

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

11.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

12.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

13.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

14.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

15.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

17.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

18.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

19.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

22.

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

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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.

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

25.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

29.

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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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

31.

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

Turner, Ted

32.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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

Laing, R. D.

38.

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

39.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

40.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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.

42.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

44.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

45.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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

William Shakespeare

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

49.

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