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

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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

Rita Rudner

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

Ferry, Brian

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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

DiFranco, Ani

10.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

11.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

12.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

13.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

14.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

15.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

16.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

17.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

20.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

21.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

22.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

23.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

24.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

25.

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.

26.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

27.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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 and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

30.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

31.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

32.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

33.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

34.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

35.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

36.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

37.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

38.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

39.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

40.

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

Plato

41.

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

Carmichael, Amy

42.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

43.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

44.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

45.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

46.

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