Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Love

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Orwell, George

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

10.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

11.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

12.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

13.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

15.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

16.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

17.

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

18.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

19.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

20.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

21.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

22.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

25.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

26.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

27.

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

28.

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.

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

30.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

31.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

32.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Scherer, Paul

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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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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

39.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

40.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

41.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

42.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

43.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

44.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

45.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

48.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

49.

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

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil