Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Love

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Hugo, Victor

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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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

11.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

12.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

13.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

14.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

16.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

17.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

18.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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

20.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

21.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

22.

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

23.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

24.

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

Traherne, Thomas

25.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

26.

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

27.

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

Eucharista Ward

28.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

30.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

31.

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

Confucius

32.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

33.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

34.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

35.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

36.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

37.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

38.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

39.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

40.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

42.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

43.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

44.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

46.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

47.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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We can only learn to love by loving.