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

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

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

Dyer, Wayne

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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

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

Reik, Theodor

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

10.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

11.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

12.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

13.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

14.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

18.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

19.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

20.

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

Fromm, Erich

21.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

22.

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

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

Margaret Cho

24.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

25.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

26.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

27.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

28.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

29.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

30.

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

Rita Rudner

31.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

32.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

33.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

35.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

36.

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

37.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

38.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

39.

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

40.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

42.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

43.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

44.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

45.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

46.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

47.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

48.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

49.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.