Motivational Quotes

Love

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

- Bourget, Paul

Best Quotes about Love

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

Bible

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Carroll, Pat

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

10.

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.

11.

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

Hugo, Victor

12.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

13.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

14.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

15.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

16.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

17.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

18.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

19.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

20.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

22.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

23.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

24.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

25.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

26.

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.

27.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

28.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

29.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

30.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

31.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

32.

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

33.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

35.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

36.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

37.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

38.

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

Randy K. Milholland

39.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

40.

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

National Lampoon

41.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

42.

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

Bailey, Pearl

43.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

44.

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

Law, William

45.

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

Randy K. Milholland

46.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

47.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

48.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

49.

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

50.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul