Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Love

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

10.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

11.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Croft, Roy

13.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

14.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

15.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

16.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

17.

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

18.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

22.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

23.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

24.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

25.

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

Auerbach, Red

26.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

27.

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

Pavese, Cesare

28.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

29.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

30.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

31.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

32.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

33.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

34.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

35.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

36.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

37.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

38.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

39.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

40.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

41.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

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

Rossetti, Christina

43.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

44.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

45.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

46.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

47.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

48.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

49.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

50.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.