Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

- Judalet, Curtis

Best Quotes about Love

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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

Reik, Theodor

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

Tracy, Brian

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

10.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

11.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

12.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

14.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

15.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

16.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

17.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

18.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

19.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

20.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

21.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

22.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

23.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

24.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

25.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

26.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

27.

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

Hertl, Nick

28.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

29.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

30.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

31.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

32.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

33.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

34.

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.

35.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

36.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

37.

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

38.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

39.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

40.

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

41.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

42.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

43.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

44.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

45.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

46.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

47.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

48.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

49.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

50.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon