Motivational Quotes

Love

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

- Movie, Wizard of Oz

Best Quotes about Love

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

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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

Hugo, Victor

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

10.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Bible

12.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

13.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Shakespeare, William

15.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

16.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

17.

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

Allen, Woody

18.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

19.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

20.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

21.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

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

Fox, Emmet

23.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

24.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

25.

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

26.

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.

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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

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

29.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

31.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Jean Anouilh

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

35.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

36.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

39.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

40.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

42.

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

Mooneyham, Stan

43.

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

44.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

46.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

49.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

50.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland