Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

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

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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

Sarton, May

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Eucharista Ward

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

10.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

11.

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

Voltaire

12.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

13.

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

14.

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

15.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

16.

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

Buddha

17.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

18.

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

Nathan, George Jean

19.

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

Bacon, Francis

20.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

22.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

23.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

24.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

26.

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

27.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

28.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

29.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

30.

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

31.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

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

33.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

34.

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

35.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

36.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

37.

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

38.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

39.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

40.

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.

41.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

42.

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

Jeph Jacques

43.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

44.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

47.

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

Erica Jong

48.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

49.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

50.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French