Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Jeph Jacques

Best Quotes about Love

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

John of the Cross, St.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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

William Shakespeare

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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

William Shakespeare

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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

10.

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

Turner, Ted

11.

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

Bible

12.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

13.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

14.

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

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

Hertl, Nick

16.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

17.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

18.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

19.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

22.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

23.

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

Mother Teresa

24.

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

Bible

25.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

26.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

30.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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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

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

33.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

34.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

35.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

36.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.