Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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 is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

10.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

11.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

12.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

13.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

14.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

15.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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.

17.

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

18.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

20.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

21.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

22.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

23.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

24.

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

25.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

27.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

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

Scherer, Paul

29.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

30.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

31.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

32.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

33.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

34.

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

35.

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

Anouilh, Jean

36.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

37.

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

38.

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

Proverb, Jewish

39.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

40.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Buddha

44.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

45.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

46.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

47.

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

48.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

49.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

50.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia