Motivational Quotes

Love

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Love

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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

Duras, Marguerite

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Sophocles

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

10.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

11.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

12.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

13.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

15.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

16.

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

Seneca

17.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

18.

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

Hay, Louise L.

19.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

20.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

21.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

22.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

23.

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

Dane, Frank

24.

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

Bourget, Paul

25.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

26.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

27.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

28.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

29.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

30.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

31.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

32.

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

Euripides

33.

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

Ferry, Brian

34.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

35.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

36.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

37.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

38.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

39.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

40.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

41.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

42.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

43.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

44.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

45.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

46.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

47.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

48.

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

49.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

50.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith