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 patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Mencken, H. L.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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

Mooneyham, Stan

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

10.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

11.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

13.

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

J. K. Rowling

14.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

15.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

16.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

17.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

18.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

19.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

20.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

22.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

23.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

24.

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

Carmichael, Amy

25.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Hay, Louise L.

27.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

28.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

29.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

30.

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

31.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

32.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

33.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

34.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

35.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

36.

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

37.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

38.

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

Pavese, Cesare

39.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

40.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.