Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Ice T

Best Quotes about Love

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Scherer, Paul

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Shakespeare, William

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

William Shakespeare

10.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

11.

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

Horton, Doug

12.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

13.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

14.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

15.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

16.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

17.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

18.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

20.

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

21.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

25.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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

Pilgrim, Peace

27.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

28.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

29.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

30.

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

Tomlin, Lily

31.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

32.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

33.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

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.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

39.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

41.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

43.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

44.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

46.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

47.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

48.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas