Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Love

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Horton, Doug

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

10.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

11.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

12.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

13.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

14.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

15.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

16.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

17.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

18.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

19.

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

Paolo Giordano

20.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Davis, Bette

22.

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.

23.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

24.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

25.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

26.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

27.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

28.

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

29.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

31.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

32.

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

33.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

34.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

35.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

36.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

37.

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

Byron, Lord

38.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

39.

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

Auvil, Myrtle

40.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

41.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

42.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

43.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

44.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

45.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

46.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

47.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

48.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

49.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

50.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.