Motivational Quotes

Love

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Love

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

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Menninger, Karl A.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

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

11.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

12.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

13.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

14.

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

Hugo, Victor

15.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

16.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

17.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

18.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

19.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

20.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

21.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

22.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

23.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

24.

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

Proust, Marcel

25.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

26.

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

27.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

28.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

29.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

30.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

31.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

32.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

33.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Mother Teresa

35.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

36.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

37.

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

Jeph Jacques

38.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

39.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

40.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

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

Peguy, Charles

42.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

43.

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

Carmichael, Amy

44.

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.

45.

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

Shakespeare, William

46.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

47.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

48.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

49.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

50.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston