Motivational Quotes

Love

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

- Ingersoll, Robert Green

Best Quotes about Love

1.

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

2.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

3.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

4.

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

Sophocles

5.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

6.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

7.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

8.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

9.

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

10.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

11.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

12.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

14.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

15.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

16.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

17.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

18.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

19.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

21.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

22.

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

Proverb

23.

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

24.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

25.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

26.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

27.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

29.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

30.

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

Du Coeur

31.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

32.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

33.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

35.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

36.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

37.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

38.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

39.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

40.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

41.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

42.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

43.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

44.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

45.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

46.

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

Groening, Matt

47.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

48.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

49.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

50.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed