Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Levine, Stephen

Best Quotes about Love

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

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

William Shakespeare

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

Byron, Lord

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

10.

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

John of the Cross, St.

11.

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

12.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

13.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

14.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

15.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

16.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

17.

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

Lao-Tzu

18.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

19.

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

Shakespeare, William

20.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

21.

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

22.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

24.

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

Murdoch, Iris

25.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

27.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

28.

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

Smith, Sydney

29.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

31.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

32.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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.

35.

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

William Shakespeare

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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

William Penn

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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

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

40.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

41.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

42.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

43.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

46.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

47.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

48.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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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.