Motivational Quotes

Love

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

- Rich, Adrienne

Best Quotes about Love

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

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

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Ice T

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

10.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

11.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

12.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

14.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

15.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

16.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

17.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

18.

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

Fromm, Erich

19.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

20.

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

21.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

22.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

24.

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

25.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

26.

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

27.

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

West, Mae

28.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

29.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

33.

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

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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

35.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

36.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

37.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

38.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

40.

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

Jeph Jacques

41.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

42.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.