Motivational Quotes

Love

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Bible

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

10.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

11.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

12.

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

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

15.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

16.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

17.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

18.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

19.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

20.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

21.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

22.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

23.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

24.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

25.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

26.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

27.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

28.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

29.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

31.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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

Bible

33.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

35.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

37.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

38.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

40.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

41.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.