Motivational Quotes

Love

Real love stories never have endings.

- Bach, Richard

Best Quotes about Love

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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

Wilde, Kim

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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

Bible

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

10.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

11.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

12.

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

13.

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

Jane Austen

14.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

16.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

17.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

18.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

19.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

20.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

21.

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

Peguy, Charles

22.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

23.

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

24.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

25.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

26.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

27.

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

Buber, Martin

28.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

29.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

30.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

31.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

33.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

34.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

35.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

36.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

38.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

39.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

40.

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

41.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

42.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

43.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

44.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

45.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

46.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

47.

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

Bible

48.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

49.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare