Motivational Quotes

Love

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Love

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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

10.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

11.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

12.

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

Laing, R. D.

13.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

14.

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

Jennifer Aniston

15.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

16.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

17.

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.

18.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

19.

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

Strindberg, J. August

20.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

21.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

22.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

23.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

24.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

25.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

26.

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

27.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

30.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

31.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

32.

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

33.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

34.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

35.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

36.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

37.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

38.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

39.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

40.

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

Anderson, Margaret

41.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

42.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

43.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

44.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

45.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

46.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

48.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

49.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

50.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare