Motivational Quotes

Love

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

- Orwell, George

Best Quotes about Love

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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

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

William Penn

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

William Shakespeare

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

10.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

11.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

12.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

13.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

14.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

15.

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

Jerome, St.

16.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

17.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

18.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

19.

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.

20.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

21.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

22.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

24.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

26.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

27.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

28.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

29.

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

30.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

31.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

32.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

33.

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

Real Live Preacher

34.

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

35.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

36.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

37.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

38.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

39.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

40.

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

Eliot, T. S.

41.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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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

44.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

45.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

48.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

49.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish