Motivational Quotes

Love

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

- Julie Morgenstern

Best Quotes about Love

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

10.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

11.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

12.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

13.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

14.

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

15.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

16.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

17.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

19.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

20.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

21.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

22.

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

23.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

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

26.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

27.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

28.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

29.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

30.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

33.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

34.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

35.

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

36.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

37.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

39.

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

Orwell, George

40.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

41.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

42.

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

Charles M. Schulz

43.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

44.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

45.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

46.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

47.

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

48.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

49.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.