Motivational Quotes

Love

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Charles M. Schulz

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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

10.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

11.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

12.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

13.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

14.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

15.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

16.

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

17.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

18.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

19.

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

Buddha

20.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

22.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

24.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

25.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

26.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

27.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

28.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

29.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

30.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

31.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

32.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

33.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

34.

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

35.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

36.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

37.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

38.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

39.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

40.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

43.

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

44.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

45.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

46.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

47.

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

John Sheffield

48.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

49.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.