Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Francis of Assisi, St.

Best Quotes about Love

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

10.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

12.

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

13.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

14.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

15.

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

Seneca

16.

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

National Lampoon

17.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

18.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

19.

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

20.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

21.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

22.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

23.

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.

24.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

25.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

26.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

27.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

28.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

29.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

30.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

31.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

32.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

33.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

34.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

35.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

36.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Bourget, Paul

38.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

39.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

40.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

41.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

42.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

43.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

44.

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

Burton, Robert

45.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

46.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

47.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

49.

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

William Shakespeare

50.

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