Motivational Quotes

Love

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

- Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

Best Quotes about Love

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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

Harrigan, John

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

10.

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

11.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

12.

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

Federman, Irwin

13.

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

14.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

15.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

16.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

17.

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

Brown, David

18.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

19.

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

Connolly, Cyril

20.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

21.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

22.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

23.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

24.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

25.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

26.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

27.

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

28.

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

Proverb, Jewish

29.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

30.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

32.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

33.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

34.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

35.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

36.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

41.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

42.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

43.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

44.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

47.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

48.

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

Clark, Melanie

49.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

50.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.