Motivational Quotes

Love

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Hugo, Victor

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

10.

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

Connolly, Cyril

11.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

12.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

13.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

14.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

15.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

18.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

19.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

20.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

21.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

22.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

23.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

24.

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

25.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

26.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

27.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

29.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

30.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

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

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

34.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

35.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

36.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

37.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

38.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

39.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

40.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

41.

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

Anouilh, Jean

42.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

43.

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

Mooneyham, Stan

44.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

45.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

46.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

47.

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

Hertl, Nick

48.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

49.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

50.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.