Motivational Quotes

Love

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

- Reik, Theodor

Best Quotes about Love

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

10.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

11.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

12.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

13.

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.

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

15.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

18.

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

19.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

20.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Groening, Matt

22.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

23.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

25.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

26.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

27.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

28.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

29.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

30.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

31.

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

Confucius

32.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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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

35.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

36.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

37.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

38.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

39.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

40.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

41.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

42.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

43.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Buddha

45.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

47.

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

Sarton, May

48.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

49.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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

Williams, William Carlos