Motivational Quotes

Love

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

- Chanel, Coco

Best Quotes about Love

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

Federman, Irwin

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

Duffy, Maureen

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

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

'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

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

10.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

11.

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

12.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

15.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

16.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

17.

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

18.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

19.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

20.

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

21.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

22.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

23.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

24.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

25.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

26.

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

27.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

28.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

29.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

30.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

31.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

32.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

33.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

34.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

35.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

36.

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

Proverb, Irish

37.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

38.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

39.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

40.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

44.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

45.

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