Motivational Quotes

Love

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Love

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

10.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

11.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

12.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

14.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

15.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

16.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

17.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

19.

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

National Lampoon

20.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

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

23.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

24.

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

25.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Sarton, May

27.

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

28.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

29.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

30.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

31.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

32.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

33.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

34.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

35.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

36.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

37.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

39.

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

Brookner, Anita

40.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

41.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

42.

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

43.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

45.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

47.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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