Motivational Quotes

Love

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Love

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Rossetti, Christina

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

10.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

11.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

12.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

13.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

14.

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

15.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

17.

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

Julie Morgenstern

18.

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

Proust, Marcel

19.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

20.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

21.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

22.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

23.

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

Dyer, Wayne

24.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

25.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

26.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

27.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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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.

29.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

30.

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

31.

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

Carroll, Pat

32.

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.

33.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

34.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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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

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

38.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

39.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

40.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

41.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

42.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

45.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

47.

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

Erica Jong

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

49.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Diana, Princess of Wales