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

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

Bertrand Russell

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

10.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

11.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

12.

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

13.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

14.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

15.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

16.

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

Jean Anouilh

17.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

18.

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

19.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

21.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

22.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Wilde, Oscar

24.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

26.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

27.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

28.

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

Murdoch, Iris

29.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

30.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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

Shakespeare, William

32.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

34.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

35.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

36.

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

37.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

42.

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

Sarton, May

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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

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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

45.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

46.

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

Desai, Yogi

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