Motivational Quotes

Love

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Love

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

10.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

11.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

12.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

13.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

14.

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.

15.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

16.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

17.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

18.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

19.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

20.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

21.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

22.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

23.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

24.

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

25.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

28.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

29.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Wilkerson, David

32.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

33.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

34.

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

Lao-Tzu

35.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

36.

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

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

38.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

39.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

40.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

41.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

42.

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

43.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

44.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

45.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

46.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

47.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

48.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

49.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.