Motivational Quotes

Love

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

- Algren, Nelson

Best Quotes about Love

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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

John Sheffield

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

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

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

10.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

11.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

12.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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.

14.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

15.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

16.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

17.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

18.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

19.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

20.

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.

21.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

22.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

23.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

24.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

25.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

26.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

27.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

28.

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

29.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

30.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

31.

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

32.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

33.

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

Buddha

34.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

35.

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

36.

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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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

38.

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

39.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

40.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

41.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

42.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

43.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

44.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

45.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

46.

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

48.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

49.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

50.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.