Motivational Quotes

Love

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

- Eucharista Ward

Best Quotes about Love

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

10.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

11.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

William Shakespeare

13.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

14.

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

Rowland, Helen

15.

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

16.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

17.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

18.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

19.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

20.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

21.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

22.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

23.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

24.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

25.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

26.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

27.

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

Updike, John

28.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

29.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

30.

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

Mother Teresa

31.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

33.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

34.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

36.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

37.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

38.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

39.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

40.

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

Auerbach, Red

41.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

42.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

43.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

44.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

45.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

46.

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

Nathan, George Jean

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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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

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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

50.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet