Motivational Quotes

Love

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

- Southey, Robert

Best Quotes about Love

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

Carmichael, Amy

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

10.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

11.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

12.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

13.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

14.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

15.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

16.

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

17.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.

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

Aristotle

19.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

20.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

22.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

24.

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

Parker, Dorothy

25.

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

Julie Morgenstern

26.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

27.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

28.

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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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

31.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

32.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

33.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

34.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

35.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

36.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

37.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

38.

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

Dyer, Wayne

39.

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

40.

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

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

42.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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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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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

45.

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

DiFranco, Ani

46.

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

Anderson, Margaret

47.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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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