Motivational Quotes

Love

Be that self which one truly is.

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

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

Scherer, Paul

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

10.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

11.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

12.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

13.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Hugo, Victor

15.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

16.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

17.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

18.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

19.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

20.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

21.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

22.

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

23.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

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

Hugo, Victor

25.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

26.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

27.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

28.

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

Vicious, Sid

29.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

30.

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

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.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

33.

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

34.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

35.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

36.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

37.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

38.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

39.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

40.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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

Sand, George

42.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

43.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

44.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

45.

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

Hertl, Nick

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

49.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

50.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano