Motivational Quotes

Love

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Love

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Desai, Yogi

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Delp, Alexis

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Davis, Bette

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

10.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

12.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

14.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

15.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

16.

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.

17.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

18.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

19.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

20.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

21.

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

22.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

23.

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

Bailey, Pearl

24.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

25.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

26.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

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.

28.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

29.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

30.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

31.

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

Dryden, John

32.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

33.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

34.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

35.

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

36.

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

Mcdonald, George

37.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

39.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

40.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

41.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

42.

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

43.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

44.

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

Chanel, Coco

45.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

46.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

47.

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

48.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

50.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward