Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Love

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Duras, Marguerite

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

10.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

11.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

12.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

13.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

14.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

15.

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

16.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

19.

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

Saltus, Edgar

20.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

21.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

22.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

23.

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

24.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

25.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

26.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

27.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

28.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

29.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

30.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

31.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

33.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Carroll, Pat

36.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

37.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

38.

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

Mcdonald, George

39.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

40.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

41.

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.

42.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

43.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

44.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

45.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

46.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

47.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

48.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.