Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Love

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

12.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

13.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

14.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

15.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

16.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

17.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

19.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

20.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

21.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

22.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

23.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

24.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

26.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

27.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

28.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

29.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

30.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

31.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

32.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

33.

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

Disney, Walt

34.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

35.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

36.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

37.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

38.

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

39.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

40.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

41.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

42.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

43.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.