Motivational Quotes

Love

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

- Paolo Giordano

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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

James, William

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

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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

Kempis, Thomas

10.

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

11.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

12.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

13.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

14.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

15.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

16.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

17.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

18.

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

Law, William

19.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

20.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

21.

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

Delp, Alexis

22.

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.

23.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

24.

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

25.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

26.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

27.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Hugo, Victor

31.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

32.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

33.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

34.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

35.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

36.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

37.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

38.

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

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

41.

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

Levine, Stephen

42.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

43.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

44.

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

Buddha

45.

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

46.

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

Jeph Jacques

47.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

48.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

49.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T