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

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

William Shakespeare

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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

Dyer, Wayne

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

Angelis, Barbara De

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

10.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

11.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

12.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

15.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

16.

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

Fromm, Erich

17.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

18.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

19.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

20.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

21.

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

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

26.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

28.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

29.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

30.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

31.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

32.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

33.

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

34.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

37.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

38.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

39.

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

William Penn

40.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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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

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

46.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

49.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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

Gandhi, Mahatma