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

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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

Crawshaw, Richard

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

10.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

11.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

12.

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

Bacon, Francis

13.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

14.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

15.

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

16.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

17.

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

18.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

19.

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

DiFranco, Ani

20.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

21.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

22.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

23.

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

Allen, Woody

24.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

26.

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

27.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

28.

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

29.

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

Wilkerson, David

30.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

31.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

32.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

33.

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

Charles M. Schulz

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

35.

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

Victor Hugo

36.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

37.

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

Peguy, Charles

38.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

39.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

40.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

42.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

43.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

44.

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

45.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

46.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

47.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

48.

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

49.

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

Bible

50.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William