Motivational Quotes

Love

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

- Parker, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Love

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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

Thurber, James

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Fox, Emmet

10.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

11.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

13.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

14.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

15.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

16.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

17.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

18.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

19.

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

20.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

21.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

22.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

23.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

24.

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

Bertrand Russell

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

27.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

28.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

29.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

30.

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

Osgood, Samuel

31.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

33.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

34.

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

Brookner, Anita

35.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

36.

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

Hugo, Victor

37.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

38.

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

39.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

40.

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

41.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

42.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

43.

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

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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

45.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

46.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

47.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

48.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.

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

William Shakespeare

50.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates