Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Mansfield, Katherine

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Williams, William Carlos

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Peter Ustinov

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

10.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

11.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

12.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

13.

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

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

16.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

17.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

18.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

19.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

20.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

22.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

23.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

24.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

25.

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

Bible

26.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

27.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

28.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

29.

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.

30.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

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

Aristotle

33.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

34.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

35.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

36.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

37.

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

Proverb, French

38.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

39.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

40.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

41.

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

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

43.

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

Du Coeur

44.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

45.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

46.

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

47.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

48.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

49.

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

50.

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

William Shakespeare