Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Richardson, Nick

Best Quotes about Love

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

10.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

11.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

12.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

13.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

14.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

15.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

16.

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

Bible

17.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

19.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

20.

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

21.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

23.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

24.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

25.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

26.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

27.

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

Hugo, Victor

28.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

29.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

30.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

31.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

32.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

34.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

35.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

36.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

37.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Alan Watts

40.

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

41.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

42.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

43.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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