Motivational Quotes

Love

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

- Tebbets, Frank

Best Quotes about Love

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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

William Shakespeare

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

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Southey, Robert

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

10.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

11.

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

Brookner, Anita

12.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

13.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

14.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

15.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

16.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

17.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

18.

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

19.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

20.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

21.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

22.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

23.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

25.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

27.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

28.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

29.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

30.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

32.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

34.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

35.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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

Aristotle

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

38.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

40.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

41.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

42.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

43.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

44.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

45.

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

Proverb

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

48.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

49.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake