Motivational Quotes

Love

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

- Anton Chekhov

Best Quotes about Love

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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

Ovid

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

11.

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

Hugo, Victor

12.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

13.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

14.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

15.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

17.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

18.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

19.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

20.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

21.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

22.

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

Hazlitt, William

23.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

24.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

25.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

26.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

27.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

28.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

29.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

30.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

31.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

32.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

33.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

34.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

35.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

36.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

37.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

38.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

39.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

40.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

41.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

42.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

43.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

44.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

45.

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

46.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

47.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

48.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

49.

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

West, Mae

50.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus