Motivational Quotes

Love

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

- Sarton, May

Best Quotes about Love

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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

Blanton, Smiley

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

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

10.

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

Mencken, H. L.

11.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

12.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

13.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

14.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

15.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

16.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

17.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

18.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

19.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

20.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

21.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

22.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

23.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

24.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

25.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

27.

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

28.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

29.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

30.

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

31.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

32.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

33.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

34.

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

35.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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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

38.

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

39.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

40.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

41.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

42.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

43.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

44.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

45.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

46.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

47.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

48.

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

Vicious, Sid

49.

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

Brookner, Anita

50.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite