Motivational Quotes

Love

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

- More, Hannah

Best Quotes about Love

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

Bible

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

10.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

13.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

14.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

17.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

18.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

19.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

20.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

21.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

22.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

23.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

24.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

25.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

26.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

27.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

28.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

33.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

34.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

35.

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

36.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

37.

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

38.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

40.

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

41.

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

Hugo, Victor

42.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

43.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

44.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

45.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

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

Connolly, Cyril

47.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

48.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

49.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

50.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George