Motivational Quotes

Love

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

- Maupassant, Guy de

Best Quotes about Love

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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

Levine, Stephen

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

Margaret Cho

14.

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

Bible

15.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

16.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

17.

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

18.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

19.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

20.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

23.

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

Williams, William Carlos

24.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

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

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

29.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

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

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

32.

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

Buddha

33.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.