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

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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

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

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

10.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

11.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

12.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

13.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

14.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

15.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

16.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

17.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

18.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

19.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

20.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

21.

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

Mother Teresa

22.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

23.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

24.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

25.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

26.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

27.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

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

29.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

31.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

32.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

33.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

34.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

35.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

40.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

41.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

42.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

43.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

44.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

45.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

49.

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

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace