Motivational Quotes

Love

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

- Vicious, Sid

Best Quotes about Love

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

10.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

11.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

14.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

15.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

16.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

18.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

22.

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

23.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

24.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

29.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

30.

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

31.

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

Pythagoras

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

33.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

34.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

35.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

36.

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

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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 may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

39.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Wilde, Oscar

41.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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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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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

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

45.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

46.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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.