Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Auerbach, Red

Best Quotes about Love

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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

Voltaire

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

Osgood, Samuel

10.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

11.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

12.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

13.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

14.

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

John of the Cross, St.

15.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

16.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

17.

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

18.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

19.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

20.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

21.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

22.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

23.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

24.

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

West, Mae

25.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

26.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

27.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

28.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

29.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

30.

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

Dane, Frank

31.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

32.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

33.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

34.

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

Murdoch, Iris

35.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

36.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

37.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

38.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

40.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

41.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

42.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

43.

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

44.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

45.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

46.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

47.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

50.

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