Motivational Quotes

Love

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

10.

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

11.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

12.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

16.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

17.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

18.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

19.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

20.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

21.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

22.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

23.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

24.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

25.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

26.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

27.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

28.

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.

29.

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

Byron, Lord

30.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

31.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

32.

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

Duras, Marguerite

33.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

34.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

35.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

36.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

37.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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

Ackerman, Diane

39.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

40.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

41.

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

Calvino, Italo

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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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

46.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

47.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

48.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

49.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

50.

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