Motivational Quotes

Love

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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

Bible

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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

Duffy, Maureen

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

10.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

11.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

12.

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

13.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

14.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

15.

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

Leunig, Michael

16.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

17.

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

Bible

18.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

19.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

20.

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

21.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

22.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

23.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

24.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

25.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

27.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

28.

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

29.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

30.

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

31.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

32.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

34.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

35.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

36.

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

Anouilh, Jean

37.

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

38.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

39.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

40.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

41.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

44.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

45.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Blanton, Smiley

49.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.