Motivational Quotes

Love

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Love

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Wieder, Marcia

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Horton, Doug

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

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

Hazlitt, William

11.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

12.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

13.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

14.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

17.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

19.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

20.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

21.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

22.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

23.

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

24.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

25.

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

26.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

27.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

28.

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

Irving, Washington

29.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

30.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

32.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

33.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

34.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

35.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

36.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

37.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

38.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

39.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

40.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

41.

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

Scherer, Paul

42.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

43.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

44.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

46.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

47.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

48.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

49.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

50.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare