Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

10.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

11.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

12.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

13.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

14.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

15.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

16.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

17.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

18.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

19.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

20.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

21.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

22.

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

23.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

24.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

25.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

26.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

29.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

30.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

31.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

32.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

33.

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

Erica Jong

34.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

38.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

39.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

40.

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

41.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

42.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

43.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

45.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

46.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

47.

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

Buber, Martin

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

49.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

50.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean