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

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

10.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

11.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

12.

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

James, William

13.

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

Bible

14.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Confucius

16.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

17.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

18.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

19.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

20.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

21.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

23.

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

24.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

25.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

27.

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

Youngman, Henny

28.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

29.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

30.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

31.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

32.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

33.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

34.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

35.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

36.

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

Anouilh, Jean

37.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

38.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

39.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

40.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Barry, Lynda

42.

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

Jane Austen

43.

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

44.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

45.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

46.

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

Proverb, Japanese

47.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

48.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

49.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.