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

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Hay, Louise L.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

10.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

11.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

15.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

16.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

17.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

18.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

19.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

24.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

25.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

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

28.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

29.

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.

30.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

31.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

32.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

33.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

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

Chambless, David

35.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

36.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

37.

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

38.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

39.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

40.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

41.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

42.

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

43.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

44.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

45.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

46.

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

Law, William

47.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

48.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

49.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

50.

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

Sarton, May