Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Sergeevich, Ivan

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

2.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

3.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

4.

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

Clark, Melanie

5.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

6.

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

Bridges, Robert

7.

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

8.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

9.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

10.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

11.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

12.

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

13.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

14.

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

15.

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

16.

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

17.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

18.

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

Horton, Doug

19.

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

Ice T

20.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

21.

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

Brown, Les

22.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

23.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

24.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

25.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

26.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

27.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

28.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

29.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

30.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

31.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

32.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

Peguy, Charles

34.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

35.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

36.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

37.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

38.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

39.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

40.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

41.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

42.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

43.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

44.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

45.

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

Scott Westerfeld

46.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

47.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

48.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

49.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

50.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius