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

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

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

10.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

11.

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

Buddha

12.

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

Scherer, Paul

13.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

14.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

15.

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

Laing, R. D.

16.

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

Mencken, H. L.

17.

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

Bible

18.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

19.

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

20.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

21.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

22.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

23.

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

Pythagoras

24.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

25.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

26.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

27.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

29.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

30.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

31.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

32.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

33.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

34.

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

35.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

36.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

37.

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

38.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

39.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

40.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

41.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

42.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

43.

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

44.

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

45.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

46.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.