Motivational Quotes

Love

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

- Chanel, Coco

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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

William Shakespeare

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

10.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

11.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

13.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

14.

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.

15.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

16.

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

17.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

18.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

20.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

21.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

22.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

23.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

24.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

25.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

26.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

27.

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

28.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

29.

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

30.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

31.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

32.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

33.

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

34.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

35.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

36.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

37.

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

Bible

38.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

39.

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

40.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

41.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

42.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

43.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

44.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

45.

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

46.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

47.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

48.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

49.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

50.

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