Motivational Quotes

Love

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

- Croft, Roy

Best Quotes about Love

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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

Bible

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

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Bible

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

10.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

11.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

12.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

13.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

16.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

17.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

18.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

19.

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

20.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

21.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

22.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

23.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

24.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

25.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

26.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

27.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

28.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

29.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

30.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

31.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

32.

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

Paolo Giordano

33.

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

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

35.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

37.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

38.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

39.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

40.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

41.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

42.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

43.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

44.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

45.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

46.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

47.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.