Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Love

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

Real Live Preacher

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

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

10.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

11.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

13.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

14.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

15.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

16.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

17.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

18.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

19.

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

20.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

21.

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

Proverb

22.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

23.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

24.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

25.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

26.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

27.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

28.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

29.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

31.

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

32.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

33.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

34.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

35.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

36.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

38.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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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

40.

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

Osgood, Samuel

41.

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

John of the Cross, St.

42.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

43.

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

Fromm, Erich

44.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

45.

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

46.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

47.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

48.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.