Motivational Quotes

Love

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Love

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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

Carroll, Pat

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

William Penn

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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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

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

12.

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

13.

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

14.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

15.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

16.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

17.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

18.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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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

21.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

22.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

23.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

24.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

25.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

26.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

27.

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

28.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

31.

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

32.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

33.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

34.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

35.

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

Seneca

36.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

37.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

38.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

39.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.