Motivational Quotes

Love

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

- Petrarch, Francesco

Best Quotes about Love

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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

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

Updike, John

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

Buber, Martin

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

10.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

11.

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

Bible

12.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

13.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

14.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

16.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

17.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

18.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

19.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

20.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

21.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

22.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

23.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

26.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

27.

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

28.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

29.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

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.

32.

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

Strindberg, J. August

33.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

34.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

35.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

36.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

37.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

38.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

39.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

40.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

41.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

42.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

43.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

44.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

45.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

46.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

47.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

48.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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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

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich