Motivational Quotes

Love

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Love

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

Lao-Tzu

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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

Pythagoras

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

10.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

11.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

12.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

13.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

14.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

15.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

16.

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

Brookner, Anita

17.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

18.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

19.

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

James, William

20.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

21.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

22.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

23.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

24.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

25.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

26.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

27.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

28.

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.

29.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

30.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

31.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

34.

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

Bible

35.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

36.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

37.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

38.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

39.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

40.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

41.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

42.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

43.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

44.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

45.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

46.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

47.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

48.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

49.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley