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

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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

Bible

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

10.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

11.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

12.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

15.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

17.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

18.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

19.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

20.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

21.

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

Bourget, Paul

22.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

23.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

24.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

25.

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

Sophocles

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

28.

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

29.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

30.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

31.

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

32.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

33.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

34.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

35.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

36.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

37.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

38.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

39.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

40.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

41.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

42.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

43.

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

44.

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

45.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

46.

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

Duras, Marguerite

47.

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

48.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

49.

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

James, William

50.

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

Pilgrim, Peace