Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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

Mother Teresa

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

Fromm, Erich

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

10.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

12.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

13.

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

Toni Morrison

14.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

15.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

16.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

17.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

18.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

19.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

20.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

21.

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

Brown, Les

22.

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

Scott Westerfeld

23.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

24.

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

25.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

26.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

27.

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

Hugo, Victor

28.

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

Proust, Marcel

29.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

30.

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

Confucius

31.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

32.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

33.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

34.

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

Bible

35.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

36.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

37.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

38.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

39.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

40.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

41.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

42.

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

Buddha

43.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

44.

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

45.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

46.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

47.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

48.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

49.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.