Motivational Quotes

Love

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

- Petrarch, Francesco

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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

Proust, Marcel

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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

Jennifer Aniston

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.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

12.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

14.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

15.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

17.

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

18.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

19.

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

Carroll, Pat

20.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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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

22.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

23.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

24.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

25.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

26.

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

27.

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

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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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

30.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

31.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

32.

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

33.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

35.

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.

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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

37.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

38.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

39.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

40.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

41.

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

Parker, Dorothy

42.

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

43.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

44.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

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

47.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

48.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

49.

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

William Shakespeare

50.

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

Buscaglia, Leo