Motivational Quotes

Love

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Love

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

10.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

11.

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

Sophocles

12.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

13.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

14.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

15.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

18.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

19.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

20.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

21.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

22.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

23.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

24.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

25.

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

Murdoch, Iris

26.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

27.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

28.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

29.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

30.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

31.

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

Augustine, St.

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

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

34.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

35.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Parker, Dorothy

37.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

38.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

'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

40.

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

41.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

43.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

44.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

45.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

46.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

47.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

48.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

49.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

50.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De