Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Peter Ustinov

Best Quotes about Love

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

Fox, Emmet

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Dryden, John

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

10.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

12.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

14.

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

15.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

18.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

19.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

20.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

21.

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

22.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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

24.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

25.

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

Bacon, Francis

26.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

27.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

28.

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

29.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

31.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

32.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

37.

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

Bridges, Robert

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

40.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

41.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

42.

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

Jennifer Aniston

43.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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

47.

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

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

49.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques