Motivational Quotes

Love

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Best Quotes about Love

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

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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

Crawford, Joan

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

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

10.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

11.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

12.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

13.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

15.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

16.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

17.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

18.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

19.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

20.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

21.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

22.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

23.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

24.

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

Traherne, Thomas

25.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

26.

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

Williams, William Carlos

27.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

28.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

29.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

30.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

31.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

32.

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

Buddha

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.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

36.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

37.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

39.

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

Hugo, Victor

40.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

41.

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

42.

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

Proverb

43.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

44.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

46.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

47.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

48.

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

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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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.