Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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

Behn, Aphra

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Bailey, Pearl

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

10.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

11.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

12.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

13.

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

14.

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

15.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

16.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

17.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

18.

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

Scherer, Paul

19.

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

Hertl, Nick

20.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

21.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

23.

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

Hugo, Victor

24.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

25.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

26.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

27.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

28.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

29.

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

30.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

31.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

32.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

33.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

34.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

35.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

36.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

37.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

38.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

39.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

40.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

41.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

42.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

43.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

44.

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

45.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

46.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

47.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

48.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

49.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

50.

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