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

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

Federman, Irwin

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

10.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

11.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

12.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

13.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

14.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

15.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

16.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

17.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

19.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

20.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

21.

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

Vicious, Sid

22.

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

Carmichael, Amy

23.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

24.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

25.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

27.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

28.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

29.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

30.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

31.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

32.

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

Groening, Matt

33.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

34.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

35.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

36.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

37.

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

38.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

39.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

40.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

43.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

44.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

45.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

46.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

47.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

48.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

49.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

50.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare