Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Love

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

Kent, Sister Corita

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

10.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

11.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

14.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

15.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

16.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

17.

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

Sand, George

18.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

19.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

20.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

21.

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

22.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

23.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

24.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

27.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

29.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

30.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

31.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

32.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

34.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

35.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

36.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

40.

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

Connolly, Cyril

41.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

42.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

43.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

44.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

45.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.