Motivational Quotes

Love

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Love

1.

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

Margaret Cho

2.

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

Victor Hugo

3.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

4.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

5.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

6.

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

Buber, Martin

7.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

8.

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

Dickinson, Emily

9.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

10.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

11.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

12.

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

Bacon, Francis

13.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

14.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

15.

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

16.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

17.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

18.

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

19.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

20.

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

21.

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

Bible

22.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

23.

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

24.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

25.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

26.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

27.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

28.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

29.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

30.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

31.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

32.

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

33.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

34.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

35.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

36.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

37.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

38.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

39.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

40.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

41.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

42.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

43.

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

Chambless, David

44.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

45.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

46.

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

Verse, A Haiku

47.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

48.

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

Leunig, Michael

49.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

50.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte