Motivational Quotes

Love

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bible

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

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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

Bible

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

10.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

11.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

12.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

13.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

14.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

15.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

16.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

17.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

18.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

19.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

20.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

21.

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.

22.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

23.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

24.

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

25.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

26.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

27.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

28.

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

Bacon, Francis

29.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

30.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

31.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

32.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

33.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

34.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

35.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

36.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

37.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

38.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

39.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

41.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

42.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

43.

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

44.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

Bible

46.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.