Motivational Quotes

Love

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

- Rubinstein, Arthur

Best Quotes about Love

1.

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

Horton, Doug

2.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

3.

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

Dryden, John

4.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

5.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

6.

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

David Viscott

7.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

8.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

9.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

10.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

11.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

12.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

13.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

14.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

15.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

16.

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

17.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

18.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

19.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Mother Teresa

21.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

22.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Connolly, Cyril

26.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

27.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

28.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

29.

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

Martineau, Harriet

30.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

31.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

32.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

34.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

35.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

36.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

37.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

38.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

39.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

40.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

42.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

43.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.