Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Bible

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

10.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

11.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

14.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

16.

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

Dane, Frank

17.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

18.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

19.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

20.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

21.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

23.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

24.

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

25.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

26.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

27.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

28.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

29.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

30.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

31.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

32.

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

33.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

34.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

35.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

36.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

38.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

39.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

40.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

41.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

42.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

43.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

44.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

45.

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

Kempis, Thomas

46.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

47.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

48.

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

Strindberg, J. August

49.

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

Jean Anouilh

50.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De