Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Randy K. Milholland

Best Quotes about Love

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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

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

Proverb, Irish

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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

10.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

11.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

12.

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.

13.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

14.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

15.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

16.

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

17.

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

Wilde, Oscar

18.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

19.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

20.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

21.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

22.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

23.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

24.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

25.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

26.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

27.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Bette Davis

29.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

30.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

31.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

32.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

33.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

34.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

35.

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

Pythagoras

36.

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

37.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

38.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

39.

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

Disney, Walt

40.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

41.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

42.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

43.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

44.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

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

Donne, John

46.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.