Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Delp, Alexis

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

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

Pavese, Cesare

11.

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

12.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

13.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

15.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

16.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

17.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

18.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

19.

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

20.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

21.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

22.

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.

23.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

24.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

25.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

26.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

27.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

28.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

29.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

30.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

31.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

32.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

33.

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

Smith, Sydney

34.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

35.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

36.

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

37.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

38.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

39.

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

40.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

41.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

42.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

43.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar