Motivational Quotes

Love

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Sophocles

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

10.

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

Bible

11.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

12.

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

13.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

14.

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

Disney, Walt

15.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

16.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

17.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

18.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

19.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

20.

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

Sand, George

21.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

26.

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

27.

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

Reik, Theodor

28.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

29.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

30.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

35.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

36.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

37.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

38.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

40.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

41.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

42.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

43.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

44.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

45.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

46.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

47.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

48.

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

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John