Motivational Quotes

Love

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

- Guthrie, Arlo

Best Quotes about Love

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

10.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

11.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

12.

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

13.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

14.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

16.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

17.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

18.

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

19.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

23.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

24.

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

Duffy, Maureen

25.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

26.

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

Murdoch, Iris

27.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

28.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

29.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

30.

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

31.

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

32.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

33.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

34.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

35.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

36.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

37.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

38.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

40.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

41.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

42.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

43.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

44.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

46.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

47.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

48.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

49.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

50.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich