Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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

Menninger, Karl A.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

11.

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

12.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

13.

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

14.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

15.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

16.

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.

17.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

18.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

22.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

23.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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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

25.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

26.

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

James, William

27.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

28.

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Reik, Theodor

30.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

31.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

32.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

33.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

37.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

40.

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

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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

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

Proverb

43.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

45.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

46.

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

William Shakespeare

47.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.