Motivational Quotes

Love

We love because it's the only true adventure.

- Giovanni, Nikki

Best Quotes about Love

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Federman, Irwin

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

Sarton, May

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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

William Shakespeare

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

Mcdonald, George

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

10.

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

Auerbach, Red

11.

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.

12.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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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

15.

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

Diane Ackerman

16.

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

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

19.

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

20.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

21.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

22.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

23.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

24.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

26.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

27.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

28.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

29.

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

30.

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

Hertl, Nick

31.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

32.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

33.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

34.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

35.

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

36.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

37.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

38.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

40.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

41.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

43.

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

44.

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

Wilde, Oscar

45.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

46.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Pilgrim, Peace

48.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

49.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.