Motivational Quotes

Love

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

- Covey, Stephen R.

Best Quotes about Love

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

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

10.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

11.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

12.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

13.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

14.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

15.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

16.

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

Buddha

17.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

18.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

19.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

20.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

21.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

22.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

23.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

24.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

25.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

26.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

27.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

28.

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

Mencken, H. L.

29.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

30.

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

31.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

32.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

33.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

34.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

35.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

37.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

39.

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

40.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

41.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

43.

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

Swift, Jonathan

44.

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

Sand, George

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

46.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

49.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.