Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Chanel, Coco

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

10.

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

Parker, Dorothy

11.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

12.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

13.

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

14.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

15.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

16.

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

Anderson, Margaret

17.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

18.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

19.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

20.

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

21.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

22.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

23.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

24.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

25.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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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

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

28.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

29.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

30.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

31.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

32.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

33.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

34.

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

Bridges, Robert

35.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

36.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

37.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

38.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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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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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

41.

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

Bible

42.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

43.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

44.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

45.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

46.

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

William Shakespeare

47.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

48.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

49.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

50.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch