Motivational Quotes

Love

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

- Lessing, Doris

Best Quotes about Love

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

12.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

13.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

14.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

15.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

16.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

17.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

18.

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

Vicious, Sid

19.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

24.

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

Bible

25.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

27.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

28.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

30.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

31.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

32.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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

Bible

34.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

40.

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

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

Margaret Cho

42.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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

44.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

45.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

46.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

47.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Pythagoras

49.

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

Williams, William Carlos

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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