Motivational Quotes

Love

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Love

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Charles M. Schulz

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

12.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

13.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

14.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

15.

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

Richardson, Nick

16.

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

Bible

17.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

18.

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

19.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

20.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

21.

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

David Viscott

22.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

23.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

24.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

25.

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

26.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

27.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

28.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

29.

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

Victor Hugo

30.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

31.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

32.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

34.

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

35.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

36.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

37.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

38.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

39.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

42.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

43.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

44.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

45.

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

46.

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

Bible

47.

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

Bible

48.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

49.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

50.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare