Motivational Quotes

Love

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

10.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

11.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

12.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

13.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

14.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

15.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

16.

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

Peter Ustinov

17.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

18.

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

19.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

21.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

22.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

23.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

29.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

31.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

32.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

34.

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

Proverb, Spanish

35.

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

36.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

37.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

38.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

39.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

40.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

41.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

42.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

43.

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

44.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

45.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

46.

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

Scott Westerfeld

47.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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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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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De