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

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

10.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

11.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

13.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

14.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

15.

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

Proverb

16.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

17.

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

Bailey, Pearl

18.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

19.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

20.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

21.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

22.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

23.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

24.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

25.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

26.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

27.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

28.

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

29.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

30.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

31.

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

32.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

33.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

34.

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.

35.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

36.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

37.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

38.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

39.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

40.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

41.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

42.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

43.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

44.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

45.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

46.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

47.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

48.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

49.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

50.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand