Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

- Rabbi Julius Gordon

Best Quotes about Love

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

Hazlitt, William

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

10.

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

11.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

12.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

13.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

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

Irving, Washington

15.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

16.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

17.

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

Ackerman, Diane

18.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

19.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

20.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

21.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

22.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

23.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

24.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

25.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

26.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

27.

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

Jean Anouilh

28.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

29.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

30.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

34.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

35.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

36.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

37.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

38.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

39.

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

Jeph Jacques

40.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

44.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

45.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

46.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

47.

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

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

49.

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

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford