Motivational Quotes

Love

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

- Julie Morgenstern

Best Quotes about Love

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

10.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

11.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

12.

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

13.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

14.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

15.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

16.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

17.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

18.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

19.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

20.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

22.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

23.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

24.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

25.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

29.

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

Bertrand Russell

30.

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

Scott Westerfeld

31.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

32.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

33.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

34.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

35.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

36.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

37.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

38.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

39.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

40.

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

Ovid

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

42.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

44.

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

Bible

45.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

46.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.