Motivational Quotes

Love

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

10.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

11.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

12.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

13.

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

Augustine, St.

14.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

15.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

16.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

17.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

19.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

20.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

21.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

22.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

23.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

24.

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

Fromm, Erich

25.

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

Bible

26.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

27.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

28.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

29.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

31.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

32.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

33.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

34.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

36.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

37.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

38.

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

39.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

40.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

41.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

42.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

44.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

45.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

46.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

50.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin