Motivational Quotes

Love

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

- Behn, Aphra

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

2.

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

Fromm, Erich

3.

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

Real Live Preacher

4.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

5.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

6.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

7.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

8.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

9.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

10.

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

11.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

12.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

13.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

14.

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

Randy K. Milholland

15.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

16.

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

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.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

19.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

20.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

21.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

22.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

24.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

25.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

26.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

27.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

28.

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

29.

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

Duffy, Maureen

30.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

31.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

32.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

33.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

34.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

35.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

36.

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

Disney, Walt

37.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

38.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

39.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

40.

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

Southey, Robert

41.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

42.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

43.

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

44.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

45.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

46.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

47.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

48.

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

49.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

50.

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