Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

- Margaret Cho

Best Quotes about Love

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

10.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

11.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

15.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

16.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

17.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

18.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

19.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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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

21.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Bible

23.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

24.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

29.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

30.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

31.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

32.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

33.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

34.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

35.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

36.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

37.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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

Disney, Walt

40.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

41.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

42.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

43.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

44.

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

Clark, Melanie

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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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

47.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

Williams, William Carlos

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