Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Blanton, Smiley

Best Quotes about Love

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

Pilgrim, Peace

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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

10.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

11.

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

12.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

13.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

15.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

16.

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

Leunig, Michael

17.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

18.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

19.

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

20.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

21.

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

22.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

25.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

26.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

27.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

28.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

30.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

31.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

32.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

33.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

34.

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

Blanton, Smiley

35.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

36.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

37.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

38.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

39.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

40.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

41.

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

Hugo, Victor

42.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

43.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

44.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

45.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

46.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

47.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

48.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

50.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William