Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Davis, Bette

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hay, Louise L.

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

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

10.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

11.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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.

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

14.

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

Mcdonald, George

15.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

16.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

17.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

18.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

19.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

20.

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

21.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

22.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

23.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

25.

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

Buddha

26.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

27.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

28.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

29.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

30.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

31.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

32.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

33.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

34.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

35.

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

36.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

37.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

38.

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

Calvino, Italo

39.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.