Motivational Quotes

Love

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Love

1.

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

2.

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

Turner, Ted

3.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

4.

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

5.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

6.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

7.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

8.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

9.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

10.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

11.

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

Hugo, Victor

12.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

13.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

14.

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

15.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

16.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

17.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

18.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

19.

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.

20.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

21.

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

Law, William

22.

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

Laing, R. D.

23.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

24.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

25.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

26.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

27.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

28.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

29.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

30.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

31.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

32.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

33.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

34.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

35.

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

36.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

37.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

38.

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

Irving, Washington

39.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

40.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

43.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

44.

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

45.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

50.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz