Motivational Quotes

Love

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

- Murdoch, Iris

Best Quotes about Love

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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

10.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

11.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

12.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

13.

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

14.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

15.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

16.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

17.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

18.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

20.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Mother Teresa

22.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

23.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

24.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

25.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

26.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

27.

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

Davies, Robertson

28.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

29.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

30.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

31.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

32.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

33.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

34.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

35.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

38.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

40.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

42.

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

Byron, Lord

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

44.

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

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

47.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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