Motivational Quotes

Love

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

- Sara Zarr

Best Quotes about Love

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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

West, Mae

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

10.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

11.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

12.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

13.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

14.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

15.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

16.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

17.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

18.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

19.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

20.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

22.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

23.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

24.

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

Meredith, George

25.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

26.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

27.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

28.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

29.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

30.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

31.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

32.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

33.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

34.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

35.

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

36.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

37.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

38.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

39.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

40.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

41.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

42.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

43.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

44.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

45.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

46.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

47.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

48.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

49.

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

50.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare