Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Love

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

10.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

11.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

12.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

13.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

14.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

15.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

17.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

18.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

19.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

20.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

22.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

23.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

24.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

25.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

26.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

27.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

28.

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

Donne, John

29.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

30.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

31.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

32.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

33.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

34.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

35.

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

36.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

37.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

39.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

40.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

41.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

42.

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

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

44.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

45.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

46.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

47.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

48.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

49.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

50.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David