Motivational Quotes

Love

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

- Osgood, Samuel

Best Quotes about Love

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

10.

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

Levine, Stephen

11.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

14.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

16.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

18.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

19.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

20.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

22.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

23.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

24.

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

25.

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

Wilde, Oscar

26.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

27.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

28.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

29.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

30.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

31.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

32.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

33.

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

34.

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

Buddha

35.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

38.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

39.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

40.

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

41.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

42.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

43.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

44.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

45.

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

Reagan, Ronald

46.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

47.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

49.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare