Motivational Quotes

Love

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

- Mother Teresa

Best Quotes about Love

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

DiFranco, Ani

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

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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

William Shakespeare

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Margaret Cho

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

William Shakespeare

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

10.

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

11.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

12.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

13.

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

Martineau, Harriet

14.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

15.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

16.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

17.

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

Peter Ustinov

18.

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

19.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

20.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

21.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

22.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

23.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

24.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

25.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

26.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

27.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

28.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

29.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

31.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

32.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

33.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

34.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

35.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

36.

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

37.

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

Jane Austen

38.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

40.

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

41.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

42.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

43.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Mother Teresa

45.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

46.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

47.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

48.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.