Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Mother Teresa

Best Quotes about Love

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

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

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

13.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

15.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

16.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

17.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

18.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

19.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

20.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

23.

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

24.

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

Capote, Truman

25.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

26.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

27.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

28.

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

29.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

30.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

31.

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

32.

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

Pavese, Cesare

33.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

34.

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

35.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

36.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

37.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

38.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

39.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

40.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

41.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

42.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

43.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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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

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

47.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

48.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

49.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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

Alan Watts