Motivational Quotes

Love

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

- Paolo Giordano

Best Quotes about Love

1.

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

2.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

3.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

4.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

5.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

6.

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

Leunig, Michael

7.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

8.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

9.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

11.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

12.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

13.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

14.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

15.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

17.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

18.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

19.

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

Proverb, Jewish

20.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

21.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

23.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

24.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

25.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

26.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

27.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

28.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Carroll, Pat

31.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

32.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

33.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

34.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

35.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

36.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

37.

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

38.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

39.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

40.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

41.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

43.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

44.

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

Hugo, Victor

45.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

46.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

47.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

48.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

49.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

50.

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

Menninger, Karl A.