Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Guthrie, Arlo

Best Quotes about Love

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.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

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

10.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

11.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

12.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

13.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

14.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

15.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

17.

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

Connolly, Cyril

18.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

19.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

20.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

21.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

22.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

23.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

24.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

25.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

26.

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

Davies, Robertson

27.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

29.

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

30.

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

31.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

32.

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

33.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

34.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

35.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

36.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

38.

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.

39.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

40.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

41.

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

Bible

42.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

43.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

44.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

45.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

46.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

47.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

48.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

49.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

50.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich