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

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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

Voltaire

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

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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

Guthrie, Arlo

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

10.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

11.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

12.

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

Mother Teresa

13.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

14.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

15.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

16.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

17.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

18.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

19.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

20.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

21.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

22.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

23.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

24.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

25.

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

26.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

27.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

28.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

29.

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

30.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

31.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

32.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

33.

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

David Viscott

34.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

35.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

36.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

37.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

38.

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

Randy K. Milholland

39.

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

Pythagoras

40.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

41.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

42.

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

Buddha

43.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

44.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

45.

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

Connolly, Cyril

46.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

47.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

48.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

49.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

50.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles