Motivational Quotes

Love

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

- Hay, Louise L.

Best Quotes about Love

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Groening, Matt

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

Pavese, Cesare

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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.

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.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

11.

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

12.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

13.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

14.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

15.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

16.

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

Du Coeur

17.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

18.

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

Bridges, Robert

19.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

20.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

21.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

22.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

23.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

24.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

25.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

26.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

31.

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

32.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

33.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

34.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

35.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

36.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

37.

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.

38.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

39.

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

Euripides

40.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

41.

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

42.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

43.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

44.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

45.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

46.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

47.

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

48.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

49.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

50.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt