Motivational Quotes

Love

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

- Rilke, Rainer Maria

Best Quotes about Love

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

William Shakespeare

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

10.

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

Proverb, Jewish

11.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

12.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

13.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

14.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

15.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

16.

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

Shakespeare, William

17.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

18.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

19.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

20.

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

21.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

22.

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

23.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

24.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

25.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

26.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

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

28.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

29.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

30.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

31.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

32.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

34.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

36.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

37.

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

Laing, R. D.

38.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

39.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

40.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

41.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

42.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

43.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

44.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

45.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

46.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

47.

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

Richardson, Nick

48.

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

Martineau, Harriet

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.