Motivational Quotes

Love

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

- Menninger, Karl A.

Best Quotes about Love

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

11.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

12.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

13.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

14.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

15.

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

Mencken, H. L.

16.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

17.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

18.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

19.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

20.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

21.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

22.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

23.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

24.

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

Bible

25.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

26.

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

Alan Watts

27.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

28.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

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

31.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

32.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

33.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

34.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

35.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

36.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

37.

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

38.

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

Mooneyham, Stan

39.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

40.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

42.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

43.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

45.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

48.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

49.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah