Motivational Quotes

Love

The best way to know God is to love many things.

- Gogh, Vincent Van

Best Quotes about Love

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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.

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

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

10.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

11.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

12.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

13.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

14.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

15.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Smith, Sydney

18.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

19.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

20.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

21.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

22.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

23.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

24.

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

25.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

26.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

27.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

28.

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

John of the Cross, St.

29.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

30.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

31.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

32.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

33.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

34.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

35.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

36.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

37.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

38.

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

39.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

40.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

41.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

42.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

43.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

44.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

45.

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

Mother Teresa

46.

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

47.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

48.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

49.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

50.

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