Motivational Quotes

Love

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.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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

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

Youngman, Henny

10.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

11.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

12.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

13.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

14.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Voltaire

17.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

18.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

19.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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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

21.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

22.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

23.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

24.

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

Levine, Stephen

25.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

26.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

27.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

28.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

29.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

30.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

31.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

32.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

33.

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

John of the Cross, St.

34.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

35.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

36.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

37.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

38.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

39.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

40.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

41.

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.

42.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

43.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

44.

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

45.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

46.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

47.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

48.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

49.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert