Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Love

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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

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

Randy K. Milholland

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

12.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

13.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

14.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

15.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

16.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

17.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

18.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

19.

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

Kempis, Thomas

20.

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

21.

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

Byron, Lord

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.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

24.

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

25.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

26.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

27.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

28.

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

Erica Jong

29.

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

30.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

31.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

32.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

33.

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

34.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

35.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

36.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

37.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

41.

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

42.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

43.

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

44.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

45.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

46.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

47.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

48.

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.

49.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

50.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish