Motivational Quotes

Love

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

- Luce, Clare Boothe

Best Quotes about Love

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

12.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

13.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

14.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

15.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

16.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

17.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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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

19.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

21.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

22.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

25.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

27.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

28.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

33.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

35.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

39.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

40.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

41.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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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.

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

44.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

45.

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

Federman, Irwin

46.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare