Motivational Quotes

Love

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

- Winterson, Jeanette

Best Quotes about Love

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

Mother Teresa

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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

West, Mae

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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

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

Lennon, John

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

10.

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

11.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

12.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

13.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

14.

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

Ackerman, Diane

15.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

16.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

19.

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

National Lampoon

20.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

21.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

22.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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

Angelis, Barbara De

25.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

26.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

27.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

28.

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

Plato

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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

30.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

31.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

33.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

34.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

35.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

45.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

46.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

47.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

48.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

49.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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

Fromm, Erich