Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bible

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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

Vicious, Sid

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

12.

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

Desai, Yogi

13.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

14.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

15.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

16.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

17.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

18.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

19.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

20.

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

Confucius

21.

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

Bertrand Russell

22.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

23.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

24.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

25.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

26.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

27.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

28.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

29.

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

30.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

31.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

32.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

33.

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

34.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

35.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

36.

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

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

39.

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

40.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

41.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

42.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

43.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

44.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

45.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

46.

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

47.

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

48.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

49.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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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