Motivational Quotes

Love

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

- Mcdonald, George

Best Quotes about Love

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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

Wilde, Oscar

10.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

11.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

12.

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

13.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

15.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

17.

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

18.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

19.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

20.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

21.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

24.

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

Bible

25.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

26.

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

Levine, Stephen

27.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

28.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

29.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

30.

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

31.

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

Bible

32.

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.

Spencer, Herbert

33.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

34.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

36.

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

37.

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

Dickinson, Emily

38.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

39.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

40.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

41.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

42.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

43.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

44.

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

45.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

46.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

47.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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