Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Brown, Rita Mae

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

10.

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

11.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

12.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

13.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

14.

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

Disney, Walt

15.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

16.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

17.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

18.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

19.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

20.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

21.

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

22.

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

Confucius

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

24.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

25.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

26.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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

28.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

29.

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

30.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

31.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

32.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

34.

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

35.

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

Jerome, St.

36.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

37.

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

38.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

41.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

42.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

43.

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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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

45.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

46.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

Maugham, W. Somerset