Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Federman, Irwin

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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

Pavese, Cesare

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

William Shakespeare

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

11.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

12.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

13.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

14.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

15.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

16.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

17.

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

Seneca

18.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

19.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

20.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

21.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

22.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

24.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

25.

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

26.

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

Murdoch, Iris

27.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

28.

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

29.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

30.

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

31.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

32.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

33.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

34.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

35.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

36.

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

David Viscott

37.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

39.

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

Dyer, Wayne

40.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

41.

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

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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

43.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

44.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

45.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

46.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.