Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Du Coeur

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.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

10.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

11.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

12.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

13.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

14.

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

Fromm, Erich

15.

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

Youngman, Henny

16.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

18.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

19.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

20.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

21.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

22.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

25.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

26.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

27.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

28.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

29.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

34.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

36.

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

Burton, Robert

37.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

38.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

39.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

40.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

41.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

42.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

43.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

44.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

45.

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

Proverb, Irish

46.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

47.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

48.

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

Vicious, Sid

49.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

50.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben