Motivational Quotes

Love

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Best Quotes about Love

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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

James, William

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

'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

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

10.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

11.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

12.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

13.

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

14.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

15.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

16.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

17.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

18.

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

19.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

20.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

21.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

22.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

23.

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

Brooke, Rupert

24.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

25.

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

Bourget, Paul

26.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

28.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

29.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

30.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

31.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

32.

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

Duras, Marguerite

33.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

35.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

36.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

37.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

38.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

39.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

40.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

41.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

42.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

43.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

44.

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

Proverb, Irish

45.

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

46.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

47.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

48.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

49.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

50.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales