Motivational Quotes

Love

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

- Borges, Jorge Luis

Best Quotes about Love

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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

Hugo, Victor

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

Buddha

11.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

12.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

13.

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

14.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

15.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

17.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

18.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

19.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

20.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

21.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

23.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

25.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

26.

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

Dane, Frank

27.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

28.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

29.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

30.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

31.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

32.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

33.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

34.

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

Margaret Cho

35.

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

36.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

37.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

38.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

39.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

40.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

41.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

42.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

43.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

45.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

46.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

48.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.