Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- John of the Cross, St.

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

2.

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.

3.

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

Erica Jong

4.

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

Groening, Matt

5.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

6.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

7.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

8.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

9.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Vicious, Sid

13.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

14.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

15.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

16.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

17.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

18.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

19.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

20.

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

Martineau, Harriet

21.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

22.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

23.

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

24.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

25.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

26.

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

Real Live Preacher

27.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

28.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

30.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

31.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

32.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

33.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

34.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

37.

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

38.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

39.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

40.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

42.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

43.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.