Motivational Quotes

Love

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

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Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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

Disney, Walt

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

10.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

11.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

12.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

13.

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

14.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

15.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

16.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

17.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

18.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

19.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

20.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

21.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

22.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

23.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

24.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

25.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

26.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

27.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

28.

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.

29.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

30.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

31.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

32.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

33.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

34.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

35.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

36.

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

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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.

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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

40.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

41.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

42.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

44.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

45.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

46.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

47.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

48.

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

Hugo, Victor

49.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

50.

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