Motivational Quotes

Love

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

- Mother Teresa

Best Quotes about Love

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

11.

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

12.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

13.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

14.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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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

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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

18.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

19.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

20.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

21.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

22.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

24.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

25.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

26.

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

Pascal, Blaise

27.

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

Orwell, George

28.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

29.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

30.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

31.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

33.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

34.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

35.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

36.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

37.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

38.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

39.

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

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

42.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

44.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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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

46.

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

47.

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

Mother Teresa

48.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

49.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.