Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

- Thurber, James

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

2.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

3.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

4.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

5.

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

Horton, Doug

6.

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

7.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

8.

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

Hugo, Victor

9.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

10.

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

11.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

12.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

13.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

14.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

15.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

16.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

17.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

18.

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

Dyer, Wayne

19.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

20.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

21.

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

Bible

22.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

25.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

26.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

27.

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

Federman, Irwin

28.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

29.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

30.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

32.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

33.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

34.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

35.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

36.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

37.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

38.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

39.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John