Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

- Richardson, Nick

Best Quotes about Love

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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

Tracy, Brian

10.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

11.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

12.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

13.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

15.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

16.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

17.

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

18.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

19.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

20.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

21.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

22.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

23.

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

24.

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

Voltaire

25.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

26.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

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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

29.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

30.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

31.

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

Scherer, Paul

32.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

33.

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.

34.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

35.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

36.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

37.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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

Hazlitt, William

39.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

40.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

41.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

43.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

44.

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

David Viscott

45.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

46.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Mencken, H. L.