Motivational Quotes

Love

We can only learn to love by loving.

- Iris Murdoch

Best Quotes about Love

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Anouilh, Jean

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

10.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

11.

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

Osgood, Samuel

12.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

13.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

14.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

15.

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

Pythagoras

16.

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

17.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

18.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

19.

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

Groening, Matt

20.

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

21.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

22.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

23.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

24.

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

25.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Charles M. Schulz

27.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

28.

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

Allen, Woody

29.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

30.

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

Bette Davis

31.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

32.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

33.

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

34.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

35.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

41.

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.

42.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

43.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

44.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

46.

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

47.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

48.

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

Youngman, Henny

49.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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