Motivational Quotes

Love

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.

Best Quotes about Love

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

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Bible

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

10.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

11.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

12.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

13.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

14.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

16.

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

Mother Teresa

17.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

18.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

19.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

20.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

21.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

22.

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

Kempis, Thomas

23.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

24.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

26.

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

Bridges, Robert

27.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

31.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

32.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

33.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

34.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

35.

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

Sarton, May

36.

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

John Sheffield

37.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

38.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

39.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

40.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

41.

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

42.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

43.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

44.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

45.

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