Motivational Quotes

Love

He who is not impatient is not in love.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Love

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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

Rowland, Helen

10.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Dryden, John

13.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

14.

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

Horton, Doug

15.

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

16.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

17.

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

18.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

19.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

20.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

21.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

22.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

23.

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

24.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

25.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

26.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

32.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

33.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

34.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

35.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

36.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

37.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

38.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

39.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

40.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

41.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

42.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

43.

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

Rita Rudner

44.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

45.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

46.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

47.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

48.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

49.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

50.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.