Motivational Quotes

Love

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

- Oxenham, John

Best Quotes about Love

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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

Proverb, Jewish

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

10.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

11.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

12.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

13.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

14.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

15.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

16.

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

Levine, Stephen

17.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

18.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

19.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

22.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

23.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

24.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

25.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

30.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

31.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

32.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

33.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

34.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

35.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

36.

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

37.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

38.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

39.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

40.

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.

41.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

42.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

43.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

44.

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