Motivational Quotes

Love

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

- Brothers, Dr. Joyce

Best Quotes about Love

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

10.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

11.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

12.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

13.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

15.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

16.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

17.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

18.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

19.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

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

21.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

22.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

23.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

24.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

25.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

27.

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

28.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

29.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

30.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

31.

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

32.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

33.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

34.

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

35.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

36.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

37.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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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

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

40.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

41.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

42.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

43.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

44.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

45.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

46.

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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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.

48.

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

Mencken, H. L.

49.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.