Motivational Quotes

Love

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

- Yates, Douglas

Best Quotes about Love

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

Mother Teresa

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

John of the Cross, St.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

10.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

11.

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

Thurber, James

12.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

13.

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

14.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

15.

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

Real Live Preacher

16.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Richardson, Nick

18.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

19.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

20.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

21.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

22.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

23.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

24.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

25.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

26.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

27.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

28.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

29.

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

30.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

32.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

33.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

34.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

35.

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

Heinlein, Robert

36.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

37.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

38.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

39.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

40.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

41.

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.

42.

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.

43.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

44.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

45.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

46.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

47.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

48.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

49.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

50.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare