Motivational Quotes

Love

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

10.

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

11.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

12.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

13.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

14.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

15.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

16.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

17.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

18.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

19.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

20.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

21.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

22.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

23.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

24.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

25.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

26.

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

Connolly, Cyril

27.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

28.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

29.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

30.

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

31.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

32.

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

Horton, Doug

33.

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

Carmichael, Amy

34.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

35.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

37.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

38.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

39.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

40.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

41.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

42.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

43.

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

44.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

45.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

46.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

47.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

48.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

49.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

50.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.