Motivational Quotes

Love

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

- Bruyere, Jean De La

Best Quotes about Love

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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

10.

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

11.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

12.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

13.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

14.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

15.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

16.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

17.

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

18.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

19.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

20.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

21.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

22.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

23.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

24.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

25.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

26.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

27.

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

Bible

28.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

29.

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

30.

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

31.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

32.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

33.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

34.

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

35.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

36.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

37.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

38.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

39.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

40.

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

41.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

42.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

43.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

44.

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

45.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

46.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

47.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

48.

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

49.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman