Motivational Quotes

Love

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

- Guthrie, Arlo

Best Quotes about Love

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

10.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

11.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

12.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

13.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

14.

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

15.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

16.

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.

17.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

18.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

19.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

20.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

21.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

25.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

26.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

27.

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

James, William

28.

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

Plato

29.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

30.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

31.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

32.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

33.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

34.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

39.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

40.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

41.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

42.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

43.

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

44.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

46.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

47.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.