Motivational Quotes

Love

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Love

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

10.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

11.

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

12.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

13.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

14.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

15.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

16.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

17.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

18.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

19.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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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

25.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

26.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

27.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

28.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

30.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

31.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

32.

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

Brooke, Rupert

33.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

35.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

36.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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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

39.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

41.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

42.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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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

44.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

45.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

46.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

47.

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

48.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

49.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

50.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.