Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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

Marlowe, Christopher

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

Buber, Martin

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

10.

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

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

14.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

15.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

16.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

17.

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

18.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

19.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

20.

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

Voltaire

21.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

22.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

23.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

24.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

25.

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

26.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

27.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

28.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

29.

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

30.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

32.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

33.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

34.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

35.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

36.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

37.

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

Laing, R. D.

38.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

39.

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

40.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

41.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

42.

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

National Lampoon

43.

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

44.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

45.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

46.

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

47.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

48.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

49.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

50.

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