Motivational Quotes

Love

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Love

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

Peter Ustinov

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

Murdoch, Iris

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

10.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

11.

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

Seneca

12.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

13.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

14.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

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

17.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

18.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

19.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

20.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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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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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

23.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

25.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

26.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

28.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

29.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

30.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

31.

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

32.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

33.

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

Duras, Marguerite

34.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

35.

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

36.

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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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

38.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

39.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

40.

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

Jeph Jacques

41.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

42.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

43.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

44.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

45.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

46.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

48.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

49.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo