Motivational Quotes

Love

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

- West, Mae

Best Quotes about Love

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

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

Seneca

11.

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

12.

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

Jennifer Aniston

13.

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

14.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

15.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

16.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

17.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

19.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

20.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

21.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

22.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

23.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

24.

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

Brookner, Anita

25.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

26.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

27.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

28.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

29.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

30.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

31.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

32.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

33.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

34.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

35.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

36.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

37.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

38.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

39.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

40.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

42.

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

43.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

44.

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

45.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

47.

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

48.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

50.

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

Proverb, Irish