Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Love

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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

Pilgrim, Peace

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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

Vicious, Sid

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

10.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

11.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

12.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

13.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

14.

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

Byron, Lord

15.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

16.

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

Peter Ustinov

17.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

18.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

19.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

20.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

22.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

23.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

24.

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

Heinlein, Robert

25.

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

Stravinsky, Igor

26.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

27.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

28.

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

Confucius

29.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

30.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

31.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

32.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

34.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

35.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

36.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

37.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

38.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

39.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

40.

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.

41.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

42.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

43.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

45.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

46.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

47.

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

48.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

49.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

50.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb