Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Love

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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

Bourget, Paul

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

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

Crawford, Joan

11.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

12.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

13.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

14.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

15.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

16.

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

Anouilh, Jean

17.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

18.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

19.

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

Jane Austen

20.

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

Peguy, Charles

21.

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

22.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

23.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

24.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

25.

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

Hugo, Victor

26.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

27.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

28.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

29.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

30.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

31.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

32.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

33.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

34.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

36.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

37.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

38.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

39.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

40.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

41.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

42.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

43.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

45.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

46.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

47.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

48.

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

49.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

50.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair