Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the beauty of the soul.

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Eucharista Ward

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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

10.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

11.

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

Reagan, Ronald

12.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

13.

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

14.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

15.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

16.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

17.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

18.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

19.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

21.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

22.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

23.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

25.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

26.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

27.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

28.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

29.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

33.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

34.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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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

36.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

37.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

38.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

39.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

40.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

41.

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

42.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

43.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

44.

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

Michael Patrick King

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]