Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Strindberg, J. August

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

10.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

11.

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

Proverb, Japanese

12.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

13.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

14.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

15.

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

16.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

19.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

20.

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

21.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

22.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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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

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

25.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

26.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

27.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

28.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

David Viscott

31.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

35.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

36.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

37.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

38.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

39.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

40.

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

William Shakespeare

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

42.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

43.

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

44.

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

Clark, Melanie

45.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

48.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

49.

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

Bible

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