Motivational Quotes

Love

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Love

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

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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

John of the Cross, St.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

10.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

11.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

12.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

13.

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

Bible

14.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Smith, Sydney

16.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

17.

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

18.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

19.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

20.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

21.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

22.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

23.

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

24.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

25.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

26.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

27.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

29.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

30.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

31.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

32.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

33.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

34.

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

35.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

36.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

37.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Crawford, Joan

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

42.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

43.

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

44.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

45.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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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

47.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

48.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

49.

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

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet