Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Bible

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

Swift, Jonathan

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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

10.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

12.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

13.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

14.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

15.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

16.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

17.

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

Youngman, Henny

18.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

19.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

20.

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

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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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

24.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

25.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

28.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

29.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

30.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

31.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

33.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

34.

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

35.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

40.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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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

43.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

44.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

45.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

46.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

49.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

50.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George