Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Love

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Proverb

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

Auerbach, Red

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

10.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

11.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

13.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

14.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

15.

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

16.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

17.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

18.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

21.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

22.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

23.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

24.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

25.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

26.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

29.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

30.

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

31.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

32.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

33.

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

Wilde, Kim

34.

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

35.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

36.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

37.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

38.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

39.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

40.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

41.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

42.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

43.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

44.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

45.

Love's reason's without reason.