Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

- Irving, Washington

Best Quotes about Love

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

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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

10.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

11.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

13.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

14.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

15.

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

Shakespeare, William

16.

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

Sarton, May

17.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

18.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

19.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

20.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

21.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

22.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

23.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

25.

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

Richardson, Nick

26.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

27.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

28.

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

29.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

30.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

31.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

32.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

35.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

36.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

38.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

39.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

40.

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

Proverb, Jewish

41.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

42.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

43.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

44.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

45.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

46.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

47.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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

49.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho