Motivational Quotes

Love

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

- Bailey, Pearl

Best Quotes about Love

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

10.

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

11.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

12.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

13.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

14.

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

15.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

16.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

17.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

18.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

19.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

20.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

21.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

22.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

23.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

24.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

25.

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

Law, William

26.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

27.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

28.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

29.

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

Auerbach, Red

30.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

31.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

32.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

34.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

36.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

37.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

38.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

39.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

40.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

41.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

42.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

43.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

44.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

45.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

46.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

47.

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

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

49.

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

Anouilh, Jean

50.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De