Motivational Quotes

Love

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Best Quotes about Love

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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

Angelis, Barbara De

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

10.

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

11.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

12.

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

Hugo, Victor

13.

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

Scherer, Paul

14.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

15.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

16.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

17.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

18.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

19.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

20.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

21.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

22.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

23.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

24.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

26.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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

Dane, Frank

28.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

29.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

30.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

31.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

32.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

33.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

34.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

36.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

37.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

38.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

39.

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

40.

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

Seneca

41.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

42.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

43.

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