Motivational Quotes

Love

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

- Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

Best Quotes about Love

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

10.

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

11.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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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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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

14.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

15.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

16.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

17.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

18.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

19.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

20.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

21.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

22.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

23.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

24.

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

Leunig, Michael

25.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

26.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

28.

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

Buddha

29.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

30.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

31.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

32.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

33.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Heinlein, Robert

36.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

38.

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

Behn, Aphra

39.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

43.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

48.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche