Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Suttner, Bertha Von

Best Quotes about Love

1.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

2.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

3.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

4.

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

5.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

6.

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

7.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

8.

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

Byron, Lord

9.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

10.

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

11.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

12.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

13.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

14.

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

Behn, Aphra

15.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

16.

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

17.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Mencken, H. L.

19.

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

Dyer, Wayne

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

22.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

23.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

24.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

25.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

26.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

27.

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

28.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

29.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

30.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

32.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

33.

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

John Sheffield

34.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

35.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

36.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

37.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

38.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

39.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

40.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

41.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

42.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

43.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

44.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

45.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

46.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

47.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

48.

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

49.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

50.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin