Motivational Quotes

Love

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Love

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Youngman, Henny

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Confucius

10.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

12.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

13.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

14.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

15.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

16.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

17.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

18.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

19.

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

20.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

21.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

22.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

23.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

24.

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

25.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

26.

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

27.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

28.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

29.

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

Proverb, Japanese

30.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

31.

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

32.

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

Sand, George

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

35.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

36.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

37.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

38.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

39.

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

40.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

41.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

42.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

43.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

44.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

48.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

49.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

50.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.