Motivational Quotes

Love

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Love

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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

Ice T

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

Guthrie, Arlo

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

10.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

11.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

12.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

13.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

14.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

15.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

16.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

17.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

18.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

19.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

20.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

21.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

24.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

25.

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.

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

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Connolly, Cyril

29.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

30.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

31.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

32.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

33.

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

Bible

34.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

35.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

36.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

37.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

39.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

41.

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

Paolo Giordano

42.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

43.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

44.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

45.

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

Rowland, Helen

46.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

47.

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

Harrigan, John

48.

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

49.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

50.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale