Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

1.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

2.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

3.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

4.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

5.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

6.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

7.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

8.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

9.

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.

10.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

11.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

12.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

13.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

14.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

15.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

16.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

17.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

18.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

19.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

20.

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

Brookner, Anita

21.

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

Laing, R. D.

22.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Bible

24.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

25.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

26.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

27.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

28.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

29.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

30.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

31.

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.

32.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

33.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

34.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

35.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

36.

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

Groening, Matt

37.

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

38.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

39.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

40.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

41.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

Donne, John

43.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.