Motivational Quotes

Love

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.

Best Quotes about Love

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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

Ferry, Brian

10.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

11.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

16.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

17.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

18.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

19.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Bible

21.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

22.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

23.

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

Rowland, Helen

24.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

25.

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

26.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

27.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

28.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

29.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

30.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

31.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

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

33.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

34.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

35.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

36.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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.

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

Federman, Irwin

39.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

40.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

41.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

42.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

46.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

47.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

48.

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

Margaret Cho

49.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

50.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

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