Motivational Quotes

Love

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Love

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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

Crawford, Joan

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

Anderson, Margaret

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

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

10.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

11.

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

12.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

13.

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

14.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

15.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

16.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

17.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

18.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

19.

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

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

22.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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

Fox, Emmet

24.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

25.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

26.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

27.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

28.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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.

30.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

31.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

32.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

33.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

35.

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

36.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

38.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

39.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

40.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

41.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

42.

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

Toni Morrison

43.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

45.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

46.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

47.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

48.

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

Verse, A Haiku

49.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

50.

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