Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Love

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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

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

William Penn

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Levine, Stephen

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

Delp, Alexis

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

10.

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

11.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

12.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

13.

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

Kempis, Thomas

14.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

15.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

16.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

17.

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

18.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

19.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

20.

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

21.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

22.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

23.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

24.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Buddha

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

29.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

30.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

31.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

33.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

35.

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

Shakespeare, William

36.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

38.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

39.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

41.

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

James, William

42.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

47.

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

Proverb, French

48.

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

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare