Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

- Cummings, Fr. Jerome

Best Quotes about Love

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

10.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

11.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

12.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

13.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

14.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

15.

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

Nathan, George Jean

16.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

17.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

18.

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

Mother Teresa

19.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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

Gibran, Kahlil

25.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

26.

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

Pascal, Blaise

27.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

30.

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

31.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

32.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

34.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

35.

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

36.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

37.

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

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

42.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

43.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

44.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

45.

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

Irving, Washington

46.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

47.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

48.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

49.

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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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von