Motivational Quotes

Love

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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

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

Rowland, Helen

10.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

11.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

12.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

13.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

14.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

15.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

16.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

17.

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

18.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

19.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

20.

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

Reagan, Ronald

21.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

22.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

23.

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

24.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

25.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

26.

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

John of the Cross, St.

27.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

28.

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

29.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

32.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

33.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

34.

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

Auerbach, Red

35.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

36.

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

Stravinsky, Igor

37.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

38.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

39.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.