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

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

Fromm, Erich

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

10.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

11.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

12.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

13.

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.

14.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

15.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

16.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Bible

21.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

22.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

23.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

24.

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

Turner, Ted

25.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

26.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

27.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

28.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

29.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

30.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

31.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

32.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

33.

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

James, William

34.

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

35.

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

36.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

37.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

38.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

39.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

40.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

41.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

42.

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.

43.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

44.

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

45.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

46.

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.

47.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

48.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

49.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

50.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov