Motivational Quotes

Love

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.

Best Quotes about Love

1.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

2.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

3.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

4.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

5.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

6.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

7.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

8.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

9.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

12.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

13.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

14.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

15.

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

Donne, John

16.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

17.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

18.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

20.

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

21.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

22.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

23.

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

Richardson, Nick

24.

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

Bacon, Francis

25.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

26.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

27.

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

Plato

28.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

29.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

30.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

31.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

32.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

33.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

34.

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

35.

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

Orwell, George

36.

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

Victor Hugo

37.

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

DiFranco, Ani

38.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

39.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

40.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

41.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

42.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

43.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

44.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

45.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

46.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

47.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

48.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

49.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

50.

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