Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Buber, Martin

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

2.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

3.

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

4.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

5.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

6.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

7.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

8.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

9.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

10.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

11.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

12.

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

13.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

14.

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

15.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

16.

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.

17.

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

Alan Watts

18.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

19.

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

Brooke, Rupert

20.

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

Aristotle

21.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

22.

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

Peguy, Charles

23.

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

Smith, Sydney

24.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

25.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

26.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

27.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

30.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

31.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

32.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

33.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

34.

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

35.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

36.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

37.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

38.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

39.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

40.

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

41.

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

Brookner, Anita

42.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.