Motivational Quotes

Love

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

- Madonna

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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

Reik, Theodor

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

10.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

11.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

12.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

13.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

14.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

15.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

16.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

17.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

18.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

19.

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

20.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

21.

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

Fromm, Erich

22.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

23.

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

Turner, Ted

24.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

25.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

26.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

27.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

28.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

29.

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

Bible

30.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

31.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

32.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

33.

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

Hertl, Nick

34.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

35.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

36.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

37.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

38.

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

39.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

40.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

41.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

42.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

43.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

44.

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

45.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

46.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

47.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

48.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

49.

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

50.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank