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

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.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

10.

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

11.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

12.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

13.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

15.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

17.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

18.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

19.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

20.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

21.

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

22.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

25.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

28.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

Bertrand Russell

30.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

31.

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

Bridges, Robert

32.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

33.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

34.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

35.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

36.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

37.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

39.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

40.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

41.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

42.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

43.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

44.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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

Brooke, Rupert

46.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

47.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

48.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

49.

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

Proverb, Jewish

50.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.