Motivational Quotes

Love

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Love

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

10.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

11.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

12.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

13.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

14.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

15.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

16.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

17.

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

18.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

19.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

20.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

21.

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

Sophocles

22.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

23.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

24.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

25.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

26.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

27.

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

28.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

29.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

30.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

31.

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

32.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

33.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

34.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

36.

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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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

38.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

40.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

41.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

42.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

43.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

44.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

45.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

46.

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

47.

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

Proverb, Irish

48.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

49.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

50.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.