Motivational Quotes

Love

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

- Brookner, Anita

Best Quotes about Love

1.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

2.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

3.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

4.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

5.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

6.

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

Bible

7.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

8.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

9.

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

10.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

11.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

12.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

13.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

14.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

15.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

16.

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

Layton, Irving

17.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

18.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

20.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

21.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

22.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

23.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

24.

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

25.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

26.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

27.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

28.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

29.

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

Bible

30.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

31.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

32.

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

33.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

34.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

35.

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

36.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

37.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

38.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

39.

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

40.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

41.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

42.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

43.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

44.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

48.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

49.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.