Motivational Quotes

Love

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

- Carroll, Pat

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

2.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

3.

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

Anouilh, Jean

4.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

5.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

6.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

7.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

8.

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

Lao-Tzu

9.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

10.

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

11.

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

Vicious, Sid

12.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

13.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

14.

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

Proverb, Irish

15.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

16.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

17.

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

18.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

19.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

20.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

21.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

22.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

23.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

24.

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

25.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

26.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

27.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

28.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

30.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

31.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

32.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

33.

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

34.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

35.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

36.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

37.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

38.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

39.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

40.

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

41.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

42.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

43.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

44.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

45.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

46.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

47.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

48.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

49.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

50.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt