Motivational Quotes

Love

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Aristotle

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

11.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

12.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

13.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

14.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

15.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

17.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

18.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

19.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

21.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

23.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

24.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

25.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

26.

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

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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

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

30.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

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

Hay, Louise L.

32.

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

Delp, Alexis

33.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

34.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

35.

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.

36.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

37.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

38.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

39.

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

40.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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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

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

43.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

44.

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

Ovid

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

47.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

48.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

49.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie