Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

2.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

3.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

4.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

5.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

6.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

7.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

8.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

9.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

10.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

11.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

12.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

13.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

14.

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

Eliot, T. S.

15.

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

Proverb, Japanese

16.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

17.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

18.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

19.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

20.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

21.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

22.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

23.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

24.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

25.

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

Meredith, George

26.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

27.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

28.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

29.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

30.

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

Wieder, Marcia

31.

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

32.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

33.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

34.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

35.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

36.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

37.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

38.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

39.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

40.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

41.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

42.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

43.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

44.

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

45.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

46.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

47.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

48.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

49.

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

Bible

50.

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