Motivational Quotes

Love

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

2.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

3.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

4.

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

Auerbach, Red

5.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

6.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

7.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

8.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

9.

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

West, Mae

10.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

11.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

12.

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.

13.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

14.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

15.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

16.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

17.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

18.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

19.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

20.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

21.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

22.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

23.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

24.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

26.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

27.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

28.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

29.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

30.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

31.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

32.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

33.

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

John of the Cross, St.

34.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

35.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

36.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

37.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

38.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

39.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

40.

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

41.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

42.

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

Pavese, Cesare

43.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

44.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

45.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

46.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

47.

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

Laing, R. D.

48.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

49.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

50.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland