Motivational Quotes

Love

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

- Wieder, Marcia

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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

Hertl, Nick

10.

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

11.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

12.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

13.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

14.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

15.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

16.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

17.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

18.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

19.

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.

20.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

21.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

22.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

23.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

24.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

25.

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

26.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

27.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

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

Chanel, Coco

29.

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

30.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Clark, Melanie

34.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

35.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

36.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

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

38.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

39.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

40.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

41.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

42.

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

43.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

44.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

45.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

46.

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

Parker, Dorothy

47.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

48.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

49.

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