Motivational Quotes

Love

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

- Buber, Martin

Best Quotes about Love

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Seneca

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

10.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

11.

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

Chanel, Coco

12.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

13.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

18.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

19.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

20.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

22.

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

23.

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

Traherne, Thomas

24.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

25.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

26.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

27.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

28.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

29.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

30.

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

Wilde, Oscar

31.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

32.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

33.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

34.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

35.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

36.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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

Blanton, Smiley

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

42.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

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

Proverb, Japanese

44.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

45.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

46.

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

47.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu