Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Love

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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

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

Byron, Lord

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

10.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

11.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

12.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

13.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Voltaire

15.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

16.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

18.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

19.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

20.

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

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

22.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

23.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

24.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

25.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

26.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

27.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

28.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

30.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

31.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

32.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

33.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

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

35.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

37.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

38.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

39.

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

40.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

41.

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

Ice T

42.

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

43.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

44.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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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

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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

Tracy, Brian