Motivational Quotes

Love

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

- Swift, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Love

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Toni Morrison

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

10.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

11.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

14.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

15.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

16.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

17.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

18.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

19.

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

20.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

21.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

22.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

23.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

24.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

25.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

26.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

27.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

28.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

29.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

32.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

33.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

34.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

Southey, Robert

36.

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

37.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

38.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

39.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

41.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

42.

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

John of the Cross, St.

43.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

44.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

45.

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

46.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

47.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

48.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

49.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

50.

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

Shaw, George Bernard