Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Bible

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

Dickinson, Emily

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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

Anouilh, Jean

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

10.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

12.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

13.

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

14.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

15.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

16.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

17.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

18.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

19.

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

20.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Hertl, Nick

22.

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

23.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

24.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

26.

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.

27.

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

Elizabeth Aston

28.

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.

29.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

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

31.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

32.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

33.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

34.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

35.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

36.

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

Rossetti, Christina

37.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

38.

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

Wilde, Oscar

39.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.