Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

10.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

11.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

12.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

13.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

14.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

15.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

16.

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

Behn, Aphra

17.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

18.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

19.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

20.

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

Sand, George

21.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

22.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

23.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

25.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

26.

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

Bible

27.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

28.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

30.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

31.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

33.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

34.

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

Updike, John

35.

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

36.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

37.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

38.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

39.

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

40.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

41.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

42.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

43.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

44.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

46.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

47.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

48.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

49.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary