Motivational Quotes

Love

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

- McKay, John

Best Quotes about Love

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Aristotle

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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

Harrigan, John

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

Proverb

10.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

11.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

12.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

13.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

14.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

15.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

16.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

17.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

18.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

20.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

21.

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

William Penn

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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

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

26.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

27.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

28.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

29.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

30.

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

31.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

32.

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

DiFranco, Ani

33.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

34.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

35.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

36.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

37.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

38.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

39.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

40.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

42.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

43.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

44.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

45.

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

46.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

47.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

49.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.