Motivational Quotes

Love

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

- Menninger, Karl A.

Best Quotes about Love

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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

Pythagoras

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

10.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

11.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

12.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

13.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

14.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

15.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

16.

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

17.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

18.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

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

20.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

21.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

22.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

23.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

24.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

25.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

27.

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

28.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

29.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

30.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

31.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

32.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

33.

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

34.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

35.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

36.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

37.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

38.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

39.

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

Bible

40.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

41.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

42.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

43.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

44.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

45.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

46.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

48.

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

Bacon, Francis

49.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive