Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- J. K. Rowling

Best Quotes about Love

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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

William Shakespeare

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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

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

Brown, Rita Mae

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

10.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

11.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

12.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

13.

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

Duras, Marguerite

14.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

15.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

16.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

18.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

19.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

20.

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

Burton, Robert

21.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

22.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Richardson, Nick

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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

25.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

26.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

27.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

30.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

31.

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

32.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

33.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

34.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

36.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

37.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

40.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

41.

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.

42.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

43.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

44.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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.

46.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

47.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

48.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

49.

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

Jeanne Moreau

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.