Motivational Quotes

Love

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Love

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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

Dryden, John

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

Ferry, Brian

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

10.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

11.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

12.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

13.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

14.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

15.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

16.

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

17.

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

William Penn

18.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

19.

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

20.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

21.

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

Sophocles

22.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

23.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

26.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

27.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

28.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

29.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

30.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

31.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

32.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

33.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

34.

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

Proverb, French

35.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

36.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

37.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

38.

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

Heinlein, Robert

39.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

40.

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

41.

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

Law, William

42.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

43.

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

44.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

45.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

46.

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

47.

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

Reik, Theodor

48.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

49.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

50.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb