Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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

Mother Teresa

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

10.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

11.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

12.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

13.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

14.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

15.

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

16.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

17.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

19.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

20.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Toni Morrison

22.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

23.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

24.

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

Buddha

25.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

26.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

27.

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

28.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

29.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

30.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

31.

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

35.

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

Jennifer Aniston

36.

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

37.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

39.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

40.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

41.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

42.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

43.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

46.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

49.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.