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

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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

Bourget, Paul

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

10.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

11.

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

Rowland, Helen

12.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

13.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

14.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

15.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

17.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

18.

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

Thurber, James

19.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

20.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

21.

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

22.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

23.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

24.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

25.

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

Orwell, George

26.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

29.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

30.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

31.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

32.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

33.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

34.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

35.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

36.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

37.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

39.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

40.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

41.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

42.

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.

43.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

44.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

45.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

46.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

47.

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

Bible

48.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

49.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar