Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Menninger, Karl A.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Bible

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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

William Shakespeare

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Proverb, French

10.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

11.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

12.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

13.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

14.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

17.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

18.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

19.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

20.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

21.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

25.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

26.

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

27.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

28.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

30.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

31.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

32.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

34.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

35.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

36.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

37.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

38.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

39.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

40.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

41.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

42.

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

Carroll, Pat

43.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

44.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

45.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

46.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

47.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

48.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

49.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

50.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish