Motivational Quotes

Love

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Love

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Hertl, Nick

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

10.

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

11.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

12.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

13.

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

Osgood, Samuel

14.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

15.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

16.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

17.

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

18.

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

Irving, Washington

19.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

20.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

21.

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

22.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

24.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

25.

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

Paolo Giordano

26.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

27.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

28.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

29.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

30.

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

Charles M. Schulz

31.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

32.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

33.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

34.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

35.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

36.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

37.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

38.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

39.

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

40.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Saltus, Edgar

42.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

43.

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

Buddha

44.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

45.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

46.

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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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

48.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

49.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

50.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia