Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

- Cummings, Fr. Jerome

Best Quotes about Love

1.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

2.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

3.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

4.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

5.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

6.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

7.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

8.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

9.

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

Seneca

10.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

11.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

12.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

13.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

14.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

15.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

16.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

17.

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

Bible

18.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

19.

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

Brookner, Anita

20.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

21.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

22.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

23.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

24.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

25.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

27.

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

Rowland, Helen

28.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

29.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

30.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

32.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

33.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

34.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

35.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

36.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

37.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

38.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

39.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

40.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

41.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

42.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

43.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

44.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

45.

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

46.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

47.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

48.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

49.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.