Motivational Quotes

Love

Love alone could waken love.

- Buck, Pearl S.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

10.

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

Bible

11.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

12.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

13.

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

14.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

15.

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

Bette Davis

16.

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

Bible

17.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

18.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

19.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

20.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

21.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

22.

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

23.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

24.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

25.

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

Proverb

26.

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

27.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

28.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

29.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

30.

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

31.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

32.

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

Southey, Robert

33.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

34.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

35.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

36.

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

37.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

38.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

39.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

40.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

41.

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

Blanton, Smiley

42.

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

Bible

43.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

44.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

45.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

46.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

47.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

48.

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

Jerome, St.

49.

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

Mencken, H. L.

50.

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