Motivational Quotes

Love

Love the giver more than the gift.

- Young, Brigham

Best Quotes about Love

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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

Strindberg, J. August

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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

Bible

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

10.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

11.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

12.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

13.

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

14.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

15.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

16.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

17.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

18.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

19.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

20.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

21.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

22.

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

Wilde, Kim

23.

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

Proverb, Irish

24.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

25.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

26.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

27.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

28.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

29.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

30.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

31.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

32.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

33.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

34.

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

Murdoch, Iris

35.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

Jennifer Aniston

37.

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

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

William Shakespeare

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

42.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

43.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

44.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

45.

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

46.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

47.

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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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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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

50.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet