Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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

Proverb, Jewish

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

10.

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

Wilde, Kim

11.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

12.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

13.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

14.

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

Leunig, Michael

15.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

16.

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

17.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

18.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

19.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

20.

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

Jeph Jacques

21.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

23.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

24.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

25.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

26.

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.

27.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

28.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

29.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

30.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

31.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

Carroll, Pat

34.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

35.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

36.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

37.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

38.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

39.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

44.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

45.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

46.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

47.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

48.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

49.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James