Motivational Quotes

Love

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

- Eucharista Ward

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

2.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

3.

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

Ferry, Brian

4.

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

Bible

5.

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

6.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

7.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

8.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

9.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

10.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

11.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

12.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

14.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

15.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

16.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

17.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

18.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

19.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

20.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

25.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

26.

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

27.

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

Hazlitt, William

28.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

29.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

30.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

32.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

33.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

34.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

35.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

36.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

37.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

38.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

39.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

40.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

41.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

42.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

43.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

44.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.