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

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

10.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

11.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

12.

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

13.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

14.

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

Buber, Martin

15.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

18.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

21.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

22.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

23.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

24.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

25.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

26.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

27.

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

Stravinsky, Igor

28.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

29.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Alan Watts

31.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

32.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

33.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

34.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

35.

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

36.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

37.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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

William Shakespeare

39.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

40.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

41.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

42.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

43.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

44.

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.

45.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

47.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.