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

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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

Desai, Yogi

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

10.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

11.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

12.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

13.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

14.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

15.

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

16.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

17.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

18.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

19.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

20.

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

Verse, A Haiku

21.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

22.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

23.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

Burton, Robert

25.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

26.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

27.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

28.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

29.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

30.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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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

32.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

33.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

34.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

35.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

36.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

38.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

39.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

40.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

41.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

42.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

43.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

45.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

46.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

48.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

49.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

50.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace