Motivational Quotes

Love

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

- Mcdonald, George

Best Quotes about Love

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Tomlin, Lily

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

10.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

11.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

12.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

13.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

14.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

15.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

16.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Disney, Walt

18.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

19.

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.

20.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

21.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

22.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

23.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

24.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

25.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

26.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

28.

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

29.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

30.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

31.

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

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

33.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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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

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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

36.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

37.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

38.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

39.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

40.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

42.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

43.

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