Motivational Quotes

Love

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

- Chevalier, Maurice

Best Quotes about Love

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Hazlitt, William

11.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

12.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

13.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

14.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

15.

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

Duffy, Maureen

16.

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

17.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

18.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

19.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

20.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

21.

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

Vicious, Sid

22.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

23.

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

Fromm, Erich

24.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

25.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

26.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

27.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

28.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

29.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

30.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

31.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

33.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

35.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

36.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

37.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

38.

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

39.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

40.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

41.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

42.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

43.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

45.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

46.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

49.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

50.

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