Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Vicious, Sid

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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

Pascal, Blaise

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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

J. K. Rowling

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

Blanton, Smiley

10.

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

11.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

12.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

13.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

14.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

16.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

17.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

18.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

19.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

20.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

21.

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

Euripides

22.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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

Thurber, James

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

25.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

26.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

27.

Rand, Ayn

28.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

29.

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

30.

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

Davies, Robertson

31.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

33.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

34.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

35.

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

36.

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

37.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

40.

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

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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

42.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

44.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

46.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

47.

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

Rowland, Helen

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van