Motivational Quotes

Love

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

- Murdoch, Iris

Best Quotes about Love

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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

William Penn

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

Tracy, Brian

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

10.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

11.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

12.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

13.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

15.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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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

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

19.

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

Hugo, Victor

20.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

21.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

22.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

23.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

24.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

25.

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

26.

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

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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

28.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

29.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

30.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

31.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

32.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

33.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

34.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

36.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

37.

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.

38.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

39.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

40.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

42.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

45.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

46.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

47.

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

Rossetti, Christina

48.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

49.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

50.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest