Motivational Quotes

Love

We don't always get to choose what we love.

- Scott Westerfeld

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

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

Brown, Les

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

10.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

11.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

12.

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

Murdoch, Iris

13.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

15.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

16.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

17.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

18.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

19.

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

20.

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

Dyer, Wayne

21.

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

22.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

23.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

24.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

25.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

26.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

27.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

28.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

29.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

30.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

31.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

32.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

34.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

35.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

36.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

37.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

39.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

41.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

42.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

43.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

44.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

45.

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

46.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

47.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

48.

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

Dane, Frank

49.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

50.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.