Motivational Quotes

Love

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

- Duncan, Isadora

Best Quotes about Love

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

Williams, William Carlos

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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

Wilkerson, David

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Proverb, Irish

10.

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

11.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

12.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

13.

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

Strindberg, J. August

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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)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

15.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

16.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

20.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

21.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

22.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

23.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

25.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

26.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

27.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

28.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

29.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

30.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

31.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

33.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

34.

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

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

36.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

37.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

38.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

39.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

40.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

41.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

43.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

44.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

45.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

46.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

47.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

48.

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

49.

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

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.