Motivational Quotes

Love

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Love

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

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

Bible

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

10.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

14.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

15.

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.

16.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

19.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

20.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

21.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

22.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

23.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

25.

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

26.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

28.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

29.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

30.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

31.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

32.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

33.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

34.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

35.

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

Leunig, Michael

36.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

37.

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

Carroll, Pat

38.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

39.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

40.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

41.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

42.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

43.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

44.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

45.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

46.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

47.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

48.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

49.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew