Motivational Quotes

Love

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about Love

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Buddha

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

10.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

11.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

12.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

13.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

14.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

15.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

16.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

17.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

18.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

19.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

20.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

22.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

23.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

24.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

25.

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

Peguy, Charles

26.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

28.

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

29.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

30.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

31.

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

Laing, R. D.

32.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

33.

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

34.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

35.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

36.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

37.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

38.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

39.

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

Shakespeare, William

40.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

41.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

42.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Mother Teresa

44.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

45.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

46.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

47.

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

48.

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

49.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

50.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed