Motivational Quotes

Love

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

- Mother Teresa

Best Quotes about Love

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

10.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

11.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

12.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

13.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

14.

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

Anderson, Margaret

15.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

16.

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

17.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

18.

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

Hugo, Victor

19.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

20.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

21.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

22.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

Byron, Lord

24.

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

Barry, Lynda

25.

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

26.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

27.

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

Jennifer Aniston

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

30.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

31.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

32.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

33.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

34.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

35.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

36.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

38.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

39.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

40.

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

41.

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

Randy K. Milholland

42.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

43.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

44.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

45.

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

Verse, A Haiku

46.

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

47.

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

Bible

48.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

49.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

50.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.