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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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

Fox, Emmet

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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

10.

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

Capote, Truman

11.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

12.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

13.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

14.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

15.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

16.

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

Bridges, Robert

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

18.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

19.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

20.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

21.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

22.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

23.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

24.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

25.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

26.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

27.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

28.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

29.

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

30.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

31.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

32.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

33.

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

34.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

36.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

37.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

38.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

39.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

40.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

41.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

42.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

43.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

44.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

46.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

47.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

48.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

49.

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

50.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord