Motivational Quotes

Love

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

- Dorothy Parker

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

2.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

3.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

4.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

5.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

6.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

7.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

8.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

9.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

10.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

13.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

14.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

15.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

16.

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

17.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

18.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

19.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

20.

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

Byron, Lord

21.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

22.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

23.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

24.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

25.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

27.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

28.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

30.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

32.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

33.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

36.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

37.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

38.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

39.

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

Federman, Irwin

40.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

41.

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

Smith, Sydney

42.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

43.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

44.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

45.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

46.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

47.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

48.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

49.

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