Motivational Quotes

Love

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

- Karen Sunde

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Margaret Cho

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Mencken, H. L.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

10.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

13.

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

14.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

15.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

16.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

17.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

18.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

19.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

20.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

21.

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

22.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

23.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

24.

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

Saltus, Edgar

25.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

27.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

28.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

29.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

30.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

31.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

32.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

33.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

34.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

35.

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

Wieder, Marcia

36.

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

37.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

38.

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

John Sheffield

39.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

40.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

44.

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

45.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

46.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

47.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.