Motivational Quotes

Love

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Love

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Proust, Marcel

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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

Desai, Yogi

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

10.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

11.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

12.

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

Pythagoras

13.

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

Seneca

14.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

15.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

16.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

19.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

20.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

21.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

22.

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

Verse, A Haiku

23.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

24.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

25.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Brown, David

28.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

29.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

31.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

32.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

33.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

34.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

35.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

36.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

37.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

38.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

39.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

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

41.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

43.

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

Jeanne Moreau

44.

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

45.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

46.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

47.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

48.

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

49.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

50.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.