Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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

Bible

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

10.

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

11.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

12.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

13.

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

Sophocles

14.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

15.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

16.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

20.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

21.

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

22.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

23.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

24.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

25.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

26.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

27.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

28.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

29.

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

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

32.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

Burton, Robert

34.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

37.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

38.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

39.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

40.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

41.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.