Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

- Irving, Washington

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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

David Viscott

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

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

Blanton, Smiley

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

10.

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

Proverb, Irish

11.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

Pythagoras

13.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

14.

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

Proverb, Jewish

15.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

16.

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

17.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

18.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

21.

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

22.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

23.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

24.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

25.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

26.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

27.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

28.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

29.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

30.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

31.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

32.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

33.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

34.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

35.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Davis, Bette

38.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

39.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

40.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

41.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

42.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

43.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

44.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

45.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

46.

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

John Sheffield

47.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

48.

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

49.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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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