Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

10.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

11.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

12.

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

William Penn

13.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

14.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

15.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

16.

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

17.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

18.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

19.

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Sarton, May

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

22.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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

Pavese, Cesare

24.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

25.

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

Orwell, George

26.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

27.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

28.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

29.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

30.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

31.

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

32.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

33.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

34.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

35.

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

Murdoch, Iris

36.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

37.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

38.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

39.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

40.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

44.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

46.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

47.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

48.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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