Motivational Quotes

Love

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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

Groening, Matt

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

10.

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

Traherne, Thomas

11.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

12.

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

Saltus, Edgar

13.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

14.

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

15.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

16.

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

17.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

18.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

19.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

20.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

21.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

22.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

23.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

24.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

25.

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

26.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

27.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

28.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

29.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

30.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

31.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

32.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

33.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

34.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

35.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

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

Calvino, Italo

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

41.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

43.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

44.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

45.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

46.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

47.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

48.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

49.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

50.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah