Motivational Quotes

Love

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

- Victor Hugo

Best Quotes about Love

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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

John of the Cross, St.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

10.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

11.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

12.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

13.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

14.

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

15.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

16.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

17.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

18.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

19.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

20.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

21.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

22.

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

23.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

24.

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.

25.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

26.

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

James, William

27.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

28.

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

Scherer, Paul

29.

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

John of the Cross, St.

30.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

31.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

32.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

34.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

35.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

36.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

37.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

38.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

39.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

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

41.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

42.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

43.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

44.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

45.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

46.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

47.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

48.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

49.

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

50.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon