Motivational Quotes

Love

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

- Randy K. Milholland

Best Quotes about Love

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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

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

10.

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

11.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

12.

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

13.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

14.

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

Rossetti, Christina

15.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

17.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

18.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

19.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

20.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

21.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

24.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

25.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

26.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

27.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

29.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

30.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

31.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

32.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

33.

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

34.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

35.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

37.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

38.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Davies, Robertson

40.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

41.

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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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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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

44.

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

45.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

47.

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

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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

Peter Ustinov