Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

- Viorst, Judith

Best Quotes about Love

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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

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

Dane, Frank

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

10.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

11.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

12.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

13.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

14.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

15.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

16.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

17.

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

18.

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

David Viscott

19.

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

Bacon, Francis

20.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

21.

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

22.

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

23.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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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.

25.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

27.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

28.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

29.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

30.

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.

31.

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

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

33.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

34.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

35.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

36.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

37.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

38.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

39.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

40.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

41.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

42.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

43.

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

Proverb, Jewish

44.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

45.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

46.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

48.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

49.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

50.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De