Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Carmichael, Amy

Best Quotes about Love

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

Rowland, Helen

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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

Bible

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

10.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

11.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

12.

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

13.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

15.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

16.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

17.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

18.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

19.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

20.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

21.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

22.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

23.

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

24.

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

Horton, Doug

25.

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

Bible

26.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

27.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

28.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

30.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

31.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

32.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

33.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

38.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

41.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

43.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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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

45.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

46.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

49.

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

50.

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

William Shakespeare