Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Leunig, Michael

Best Quotes about Love

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

Augustine, St.

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

Donne, John

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Groening, Matt

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Chambless, David

10.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

11.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

12.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

13.

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

14.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

15.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

16.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

17.

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

Mooneyham, Stan

18.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

19.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

20.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

21.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

22.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

24.

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

Horton, Doug

25.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

26.

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

Hugo, Victor

27.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

28.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

29.

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

30.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

31.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

32.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

33.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

34.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

35.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

36.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

37.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

38.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

39.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

40.

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

41.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

42.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

43.

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

44.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

45.

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.

46.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

47.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

48.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

49.

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

50.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius