Motivational Quotes

Love

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

- Angelis, Barbara De

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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.

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

Chanel, Coco

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

11.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

12.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

13.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

14.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

15.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

16.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

17.

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

Bible

18.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

19.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

20.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

21.

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

Kempis, Thomas

22.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

23.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

24.

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

25.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

26.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

27.

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

28.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

29.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

30.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

31.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

32.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

33.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

34.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

35.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

36.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

37.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

38.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

39.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

40.

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

41.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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.

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

Thurber, James

44.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

45.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

47.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

48.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

49.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

50.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.