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

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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

10.

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

11.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb

14.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

15.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

16.

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

Croft, Roy

17.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

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

Aragon, Louis

19.

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

Mother Teresa

20.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

21.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

22.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

23.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

24.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

25.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

26.

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

27.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

28.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

29.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

30.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

31.

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

32.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

33.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

34.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

35.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

36.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

37.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

38.

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

39.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

40.

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.

41.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

42.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

43.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

44.

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

Peter Ustinov

45.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

46.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

47.

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

William Shakespeare

48.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

49.

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

50.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare