Motivational Quotes

Love

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Love

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

Buddha

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

10.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

Lennon, John

12.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

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.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Ackerman, Diane

16.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

17.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

18.

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

19.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

20.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

21.

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

22.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

23.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

24.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

25.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

26.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

27.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

28.

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

Mcdonald, George

29.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

30.

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

31.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

32.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

34.

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

Vicious, Sid

35.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

36.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

39.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

40.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

41.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

42.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

43.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

44.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

45.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

48.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

49.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

50.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare