Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

10.

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

Southey, Robert

11.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

12.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

13.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

14.

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

15.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

17.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

19.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

20.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

22.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

23.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

24.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

27.

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

28.

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

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

30.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

31.

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

Vicious, Sid

32.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

33.

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

34.

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

35.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

36.

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

Julie Morgenstern

37.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

38.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

39.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

42.

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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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

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

45.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

46.

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

Ackerman, Diane

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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