Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Love

1.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

2.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

3.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

4.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

5.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

6.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

7.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

8.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

9.

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

10.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

11.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

12.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

16.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

17.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

18.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

19.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

20.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

21.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

23.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

24.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

25.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

27.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

28.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

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

31.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

32.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

36.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

37.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

38.

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

39.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

40.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

41.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

42.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

43.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

44.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

45.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

46.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

47.

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.

48.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

49.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

50.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George