Motivational Quotes

Love

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

- Graham, Billy

Best Quotes about Love

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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

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

Steindl-Rast, David

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

10.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

11.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

12.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

13.

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

Ferry, Brian

14.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

15.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

16.

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

17.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

19.

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

20.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

21.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

22.

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

Mother Teresa

23.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

24.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

25.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

26.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

27.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

28.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

29.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

30.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

31.

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

Bible

32.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

33.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

34.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

35.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

36.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

37.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

38.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

39.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

40.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

41.

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

Lennon, John

42.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

43.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

44.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

45.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

46.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.