Motivational Quotes

Love

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

10.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

11.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

12.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

13.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

14.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

15.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

16.

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

Capote, Truman

17.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

18.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

19.

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

20.

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

Murdoch, Iris

21.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

22.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

23.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

24.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

25.

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

Lennon, John

26.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

27.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

28.

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

Chanel, Coco

29.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

30.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

31.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

32.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

33.

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

34.

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

Federman, Irwin

35.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

36.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

39.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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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

41.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

42.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

43.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

44.

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

Confucius

45.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

46.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

47.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

48.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

49.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

50.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.