Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Kent, Sister Corita

Best Quotes about Love

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

10.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

11.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

14.

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

Mencken, H. L.

16.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

17.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

18.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

19.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

20.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

22.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

23.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

24.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

25.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

26.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

28.

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

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

30.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

33.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

34.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

36.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

37.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

38.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

39.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

40.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

41.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

44.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

47.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

48.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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