Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

DiFranco, Ani

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

11.

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

Proverb

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

13.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Mother Teresa

15.

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

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

Sand, George

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

19.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

22.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

23.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

24.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

28.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

29.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

30.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

31.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

32.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

33.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

34.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

35.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

36.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

37.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

38.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

39.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

40.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

41.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

42.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

43.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

44.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

45.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

46.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

48.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

49.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

50.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques