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

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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

Bible

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

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

10.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

11.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

14.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

15.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

16.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

17.

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

Proverb, French

18.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

19.

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

Nathan, George Jean

20.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

23.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

24.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

25.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

26.

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.

27.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

28.

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

Rita Rudner

29.

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

Jane Austen

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

33.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

34.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

35.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

36.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

37.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

38.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

39.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

40.

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

Jeanne Moreau

41.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

42.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

43.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

44.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

45.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

46.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

47.

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

48.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

49.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

50.

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

Julie Morgenstern