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

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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

David Viscott

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

10.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

11.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

12.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

13.

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

14.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

15.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Clark, Melanie

17.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

18.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

19.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

20.

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

Disney, Walt

21.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

22.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

23.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

24.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

25.

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

Anouilh, Jean

26.

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

27.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

28.

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

Paolo Giordano

29.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

30.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

33.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

34.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

35.

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

36.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

37.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

38.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

39.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

40.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

41.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

42.

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

43.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

46.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

47.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

48.

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

49.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh