Motivational Quotes

Love

Love alone could waken love.

- Buck, Pearl S.

Best Quotes about Love

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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

Carroll, Pat

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

10.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

11.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

12.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

13.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

14.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

15.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

16.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

17.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

18.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

19.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

20.

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

21.

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

West, Mae

22.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

23.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

24.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

25.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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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

27.

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

28.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

29.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

30.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

33.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

34.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

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

36.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

38.

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.

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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.

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.