Motivational Quotes

Love

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

- Breton, Andre

Best Quotes about Love

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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

Fromm, Erich

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

William Shakespeare

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

15.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

16.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Croft, Roy

18.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

19.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

20.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

21.

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

22.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

23.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

24.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

25.

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.

26.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

27.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

28.

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

29.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

31.

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

Nathan, George Jean

32.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

33.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

34.

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

Confucius

35.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

36.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

37.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

38.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

39.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

40.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

43.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

48.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

49.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

50.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare