Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Kent, Sister Corita

Best Quotes about Love

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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

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

Scherer, Paul

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

10.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

11.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

12.

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

Lennon, John

13.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

14.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

15.

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.

16.

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

Margaret Cho

17.

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

Alan Watts

18.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

19.

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

Sophocles

20.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

21.

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

22.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

23.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

24.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

25.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

26.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

27.

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

West, Mae

28.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

29.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

30.

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

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

32.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

33.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

35.

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

Delp, Alexis

36.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

37.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

38.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

39.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

40.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

41.

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

Mother Teresa

42.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

43.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

46.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

47.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

48.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

49.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.