Motivational Quotes

Love

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

- Traherne, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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

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

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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

Bible

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

11.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

12.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

13.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

14.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

15.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

16.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

17.

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

18.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

19.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

20.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

21.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

22.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

23.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

24.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

25.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

26.

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

27.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

29.

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

30.

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

Croft, Roy

31.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

32.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

33.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

34.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

35.

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

Buddha

36.

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

37.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

38.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

39.

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

Rowland, Helen

40.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

41.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

42.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

43.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

44.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

45.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

46.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

47.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

48.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

49.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

50.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert