Motivational Quotes

Love

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

- Covey, Stephen R.

Best Quotes about Love

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Durrell, Lawrence

10.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

12.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

13.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

14.

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

Hertl, Nick

15.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

16.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

18.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

19.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

20.

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

Dickinson, Emily

21.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

22.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

23.

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

Eliot, T. S.

24.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

25.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

26.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

27.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

28.

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.

29.

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

Bacon, Francis

30.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

31.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

32.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

33.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

34.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

35.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

36.

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

Fromm, Erich

37.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

38.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

39.

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

Blanton, Smiley

40.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

41.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

43.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

44.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

45.

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

46.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

47.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

48.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

49.

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

Federman, Irwin

50.

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