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

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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

Williams, William Carlos

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

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

10.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

11.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

12.

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

DiFranco, Ani

13.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

14.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

15.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

16.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

17.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

18.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

19.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

20.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

21.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

22.

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

Jane Austen

23.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

24.

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

Levine, Stephen

25.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

26.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

28.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

29.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

30.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

31.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

32.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

33.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

34.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

35.

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

36.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

38.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

39.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

40.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Real Live Preacher

43.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

44.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

45.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

47.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Law, William