Motivational Quotes

Love

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.

Best Quotes about Love

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

William Shakespeare

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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

10.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

11.

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

12.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

13.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

14.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

15.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

16.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

17.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

19.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

20.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

21.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

22.

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

23.

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

Mencken, H. L.

24.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

25.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

26.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

27.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

29.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

32.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

33.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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

Buber, Martin

35.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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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

37.

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

38.

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

Southey, Robert

39.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

43.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

44.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

45.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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

Carlyle, Thomas

47.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

48.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.