Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

- Wilkerson, David

Best Quotes about Love

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Paolo Giordano

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

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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

Wilde, Kim

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

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

10.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

11.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

12.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

13.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

14.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

15.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

16.

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

Bible

17.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

18.

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

Confucius

19.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Dane, Frank

21.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

24.

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

Randy K. Milholland

25.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

28.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

29.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

30.

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

Connolly, Cyril

31.

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

32.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

33.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

34.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

35.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

36.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

37.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

38.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

40.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

42.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

43.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

44.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

45.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

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

47.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

48.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

49.

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

Wieder, Marcia

50.

We live in the world when we love it.