Motivational Quotes

Love

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

- Oxenham, John

Best Quotes about Love

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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

Crawford, Joan

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

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

Bible

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Buddha

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

10.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

11.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

12.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

13.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

14.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

15.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

16.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

17.

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

18.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

19.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

20.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

23.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

24.

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

25.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

26.

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

27.

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

Hazlitt, William

28.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

29.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

30.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

31.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

32.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Tracy, Brian

35.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

36.

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

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

38.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

40.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

41.

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

Carroll, Pat

42.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

43.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

44.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

45.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

46.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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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

48.

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

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis