Motivational Quotes

Love

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

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Best Quotes about Love

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

10.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

11.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

13.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

14.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

15.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

16.

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

William Penn

17.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

20.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

21.

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

Proverb, French

22.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

23.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

24.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

25.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

26.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

27.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

28.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

29.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

30.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

31.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

32.

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

33.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

34.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

38.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

39.

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

Traherne, Thomas

40.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

41.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

42.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

43.

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

Duras, Marguerite

44.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

45.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

46.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

47.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

49.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

50.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.