Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Love

1.

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

2.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

3.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

4.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

5.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

6.

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

Hugo, Victor

7.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

8.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

9.

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

William Shakespeare

10.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

11.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

12.

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

Hertl, Nick

13.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

15.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

16.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

17.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

18.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

19.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

20.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

21.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

22.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

24.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

25.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

26.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

27.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

28.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

29.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

30.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

31.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

32.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

33.

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

Parker, Dorothy

34.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

35.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

37.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

38.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

39.

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

Bible

40.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

41.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

42.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

43.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

44.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

45.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

46.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

47.

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

Murdoch, Iris

48.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

49.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

50.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De