Motivational Quotes

Love

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Love

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Paolo Giordano

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Gibran, Kahlil

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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

Blanton, Smiley

10.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb, Irish

14.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

15.

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

Bible

16.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

17.

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

Buddha

18.

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

Groening, Matt

19.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

20.

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

21.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

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

23.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

24.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

25.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

26.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

27.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

30.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

31.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

32.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

33.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

34.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

35.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

36.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

37.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

38.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

39.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

41.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

42.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

43.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

44.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

45.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

46.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

47.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

48.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

49.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

50.

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

Steindl-Rast, David