Motivational Quotes

Love

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Love

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Sophocles

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

10.

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

Pavese, Cesare

11.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

12.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

13.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

14.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

15.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

16.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

17.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

18.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

19.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

20.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

21.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

22.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

23.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

24.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

25.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

27.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

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

Disney, Walt

29.

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

Julie Morgenstern

30.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

31.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

32.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

33.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

34.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

35.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

36.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

37.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

38.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

39.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

41.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

42.

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

Bailey, Pearl

43.

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

44.

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

National Lampoon

45.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

46.

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

47.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

48.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

49.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

50.

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