Motivational Quotes

Love

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Love

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

10.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

11.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

12.

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

Hoffman, Lisa

13.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

14.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

15.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

16.

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

Calvino, Italo

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

18.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Allen, Woody

21.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

22.

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

Carmichael, Amy

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

26.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

27.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

28.

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

29.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

30.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

31.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

32.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

33.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

34.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

35.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

36.

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

Fromm, Erich

37.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

38.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

39.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

41.

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

42.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

43.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

44.

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

Pavese, Cesare

45.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

46.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

49.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

50.

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