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

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Connolly, Cyril

10.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

11.

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

12.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

13.

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

14.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

15.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

16.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

17.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

18.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

19.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

20.

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

21.

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

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

Bible

23.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

24.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

25.

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

26.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

27.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

28.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

29.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

30.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

31.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

32.

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

Hugo, Victor

33.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

34.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

35.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

36.

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

37.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

38.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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

41.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

42.

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

43.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

44.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

45.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

46.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

47.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

48.

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

49.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

50.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb