Motivational Quotes

Love

I shall always be a priest of love.

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about Love

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

10.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

11.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

12.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

13.

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

Proverb, Irish

14.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

15.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

16.

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

Turner, Ted

17.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

18.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

19.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

20.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

21.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

22.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

23.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

24.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

25.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

26.

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

Sand, George

27.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

28.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

29.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

30.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

31.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

32.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

33.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

34.

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

Jennifer Aniston

35.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

36.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

37.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

38.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

39.

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

Hertl, Nick

40.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

41.

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

Law, William

42.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

45.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

46.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

47.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

48.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

49.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

50.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von