Motivational Quotes

Love

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Love

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

10.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

11.

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.

12.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

13.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

14.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Plato

16.

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

Bible

17.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

18.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

19.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

20.

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

Real Live Preacher

21.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

22.

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

Proverb, Jewish

23.

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

Orwell, George

24.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

25.

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

26.

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

27.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

28.

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

Bible

29.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

30.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

31.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

32.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

33.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

34.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

36.

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

Updike, John

37.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

40.

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

Mother Teresa

41.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

42.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

43.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

44.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

45.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

46.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

47.

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

48.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

49.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

50.

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

Traherne, Thomas