Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Love

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

William Shakespeare

10.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

11.

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

Jeph Jacques

12.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

13.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

14.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

15.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

16.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

17.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

18.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

19.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

20.

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.

21.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

22.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

24.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

25.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

26.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

27.

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

28.

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

Davies, Robertson

29.

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

Anouilh, Jean

30.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

31.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

32.

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

Carmichael, Amy

33.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

34.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

37.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]