Motivational Quotes

Love

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.

Best Quotes about Love

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

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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

Bible

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

11.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

12.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

14.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

15.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

16.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

17.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

18.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

19.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

20.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

24.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

26.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

27.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

28.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

29.

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

30.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

31.

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

Calvino, Italo

32.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

33.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

35.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

36.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

37.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

38.

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

Ferry, Brian

39.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

40.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

41.

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

42.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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

Steindl-Rast, David

47.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

49.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

50.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de