Motivational Quotes

Love

A heart that loves is always young.

- Proverb, Greek

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

10.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

11.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

12.

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

Hugo, Victor

13.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

14.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

15.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

16.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

18.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

19.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

20.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

21.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

22.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

23.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

25.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

26.

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

27.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

28.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

29.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

30.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

31.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

32.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

33.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

34.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

36.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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

Jeanne Moreau

38.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

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

42.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

43.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

44.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

45.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

47.

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

Horton, Doug

48.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

49.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

50.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.