Motivational Quotes

Love

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

- Buber, Martin

Best Quotes about Love

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

10.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

11.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

12.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

13.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

14.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

15.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

16.

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

17.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

18.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

19.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

20.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

21.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

22.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

23.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

24.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

25.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

26.

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

Bible

27.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

28.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Plato

30.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

31.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

32.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

33.

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

Leunig, Michael

34.

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.

35.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

36.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

37.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

38.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

39.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

40.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

41.

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

Blanton, Smiley

42.

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

43.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

46.

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