Motivational Quotes

Love

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

- David Foster

Best Quotes about Love

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

10.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

11.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

12.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

13.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

14.

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

15.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

16.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

17.

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

Williams, William Carlos

18.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

19.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

20.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

22.

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

Calvino, Italo

23.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

24.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

25.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

26.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

27.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

28.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

29.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

30.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

31.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

32.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

34.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

35.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

36.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

37.

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

Strindberg, J. August

38.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

39.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

40.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

41.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

42.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

43.

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

44.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

45.

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

Capote, Truman

46.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

47.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.