Motivational Quotes

Love

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Love

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

10.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

11.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

12.

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

Carroll, Pat

13.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

14.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

15.

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

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

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

18.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

20.

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

Aragon, Louis

21.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

22.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

23.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

25.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

27.

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

28.

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

Levine, Stephen

29.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

30.

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

Charles M. Schulz

31.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

32.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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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

34.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

35.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

36.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

37.

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

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

40.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

41.

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

Blanton, Smiley

42.

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

Jeph Jacques

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

44.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

45.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

46.

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

Brooke, Rupert

47.

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

Elizabeth Aston

48.

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

49.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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