Motivational Quotes

Love

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

- Buber, Martin

Best Quotes about Love

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

10.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

11.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

12.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

13.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

14.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

15.

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

Augustine, St.

16.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

17.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

18.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

19.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

20.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

21.

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

22.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

23.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

24.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

25.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

26.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

27.

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

Victor Hugo

28.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

29.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

30.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

31.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

32.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

33.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

34.

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

35.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

36.

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

Chambless, David

37.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

38.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

39.

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

40.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

41.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

42.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

43.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

44.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

45.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

46.

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

National Lampoon

47.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.