Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

- Ginsberg, Louis

Best Quotes about Love

1.

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

Jean Anouilh

2.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

3.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

4.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

5.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

6.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

7.

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

8.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

9.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

10.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

11.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

12.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

13.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

14.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

15.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

16.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

17.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

18.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

19.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

21.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

22.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

23.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

24.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

25.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

26.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

27.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

28.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

29.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

30.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

31.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

32.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

33.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

34.

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

35.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

36.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

37.

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.

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

39.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

40.

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

41.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

42.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

43.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

44.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.