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

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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

Nathan, George Jean

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

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Calvino, Italo

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

12.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

14.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

15.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

16.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

17.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

18.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

19.

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

Chanel, Coco

20.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

21.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

22.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

23.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

24.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

25.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

27.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

29.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

30.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

31.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

32.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

35.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

36.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

37.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

39.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

40.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

41.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

42.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

43.

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

William Penn

44.

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

45.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

46.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

47.

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

48.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

49.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

50.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba