Motivational Quotes

Love

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

11.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

12.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

13.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

14.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

15.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

16.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

17.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Seneca

19.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

20.

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

21.

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

Blanton, Smiley

22.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

23.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

24.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

25.

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

26.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

27.

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

28.

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

Sophocles

29.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

30.

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

31.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

33.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

34.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

37.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

38.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

39.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

40.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

41.

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

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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

43.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

44.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

46.

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

Bible

47.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)