Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Love

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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

Hertl, Nick

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

10.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

11.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

12.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

13.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

14.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

15.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

16.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

17.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

18.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

19.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

20.

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

Bible

21.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

22.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

23.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

24.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

25.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

26.

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

27.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

30.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

32.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

33.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

34.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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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.

36.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

37.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

38.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

39.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

40.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

41.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

42.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

43.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

44.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

45.

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

46.

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

47.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

48.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

49.

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

William Shakespeare

50.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich