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

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Laing, R. D.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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

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

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

11.

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

12.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

13.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

14.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

15.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

16.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

17.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

19.

'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

20.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

21.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

23.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

24.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

25.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

26.

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

27.

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

28.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

29.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

30.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

31.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

32.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

33.

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

Pythagoras

34.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

35.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

36.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

37.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

38.

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

Connolly, Cyril

39.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

40.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

41.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

42.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

43.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

44.

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.

45.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

46.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.