Motivational Quotes

Love

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

- Randy K. Milholland

Best Quotes about Love

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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

10.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

11.

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

Voltaire

12.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

13.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

14.

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

Bible

15.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

16.

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

Bible

17.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

18.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

19.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

20.

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

Martineau, Harriet

21.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

22.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

23.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

24.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

25.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

26.

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

Charles M. Schulz

27.

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

Hay, Louise L.

28.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

29.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

30.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

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

36.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

37.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

38.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

39.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

40.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

41.

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

Randy K. Milholland

42.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

43.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

46.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

47.

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

48.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

49.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

50.

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

Scott Westerfeld