Motivational Quotes

Love

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.

Best Quotes about Love

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

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

John of the Cross, St.

11.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

12.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

13.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

14.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

15.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

16.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

17.

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

18.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

19.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

20.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

21.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

22.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

23.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

24.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

25.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

26.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

27.

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

Brooke, Rupert

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Randy K. Milholland

30.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

31.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

32.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

34.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

35.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

36.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

37.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

39.

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

Bacon, Francis

40.

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

Saltus, Edgar

41.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

42.

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

Osgood, Samuel

43.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

44.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

45.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

46.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

47.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

48.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

49.

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

50.

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