Motivational Quotes

Love

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Love

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Reagan, Ronald

10.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

11.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

12.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

13.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

14.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

15.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

16.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

17.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

18.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

19.

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.

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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

21.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

24.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

25.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

26.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

27.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

28.

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

Levine, Stephen

29.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

30.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

31.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

32.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

34.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

35.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

36.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

37.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

38.

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

Carroll, Pat

39.

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

Ovid

40.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

41.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

42.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

43.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

44.

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

45.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

46.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

47.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

48.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

49.

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

50.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony