Motivational Quotes

Love

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

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Best Quotes about Love

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

Bible

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

11.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

12.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

13.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

14.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

15.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

16.

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

17.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

20.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

21.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

22.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

23.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

24.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

25.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

26.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

27.

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

Mother Teresa

28.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

29.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

30.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

31.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

32.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

33.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

34.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

35.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

36.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

39.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

40.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Chambless, David

42.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

43.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

44.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

45.

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

46.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

47.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

48.

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

49.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

50.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher