Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Capote, Truman

Best Quotes about Love

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

11.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

12.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

13.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

14.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

15.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

16.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

17.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

18.

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

19.

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

Bible

20.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

21.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

22.

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

23.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

29.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

30.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

31.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

32.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

33.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

35.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

36.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

37.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

38.

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

39.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

40.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

41.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

42.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

43.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

44.

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

Confucius

45.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

46.

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.

47.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

48.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

49.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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