Motivational Quotes

Love

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

- Bernard, St.

Best Quotes about Love

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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

Reik, Theodor

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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

Nathan, George Jean

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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

10.

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

Real Live Preacher

11.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

12.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

13.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

14.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

15.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

17.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

18.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

19.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

20.

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

21.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

26.

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

Bourget, Paul

27.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

28.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

29.

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

Laing, R. D.

30.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

31.

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

Buddha

32.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

33.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

34.

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

35.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

36.

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

37.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

38.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

39.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

40.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

41.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

42.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

43.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

44.

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

45.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

46.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

47.

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

48.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

49.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

50.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare