Motivational Quotes

Love

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

- McKay, John

Best Quotes about Love

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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

Bible

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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

Proverb

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

10.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

11.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

12.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

14.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

17.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

18.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

19.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

20.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

21.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

22.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

25.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

26.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

28.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

29.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

30.

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

Sarton, May

31.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

32.

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

33.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

34.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

35.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

36.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

37.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

38.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

39.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

40.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

41.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

42.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Eliot, T. S.

44.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

45.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

47.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

48.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

49.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

50.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.