Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Federman, Irwin

Best Quotes about Love

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

10.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

11.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

12.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

13.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

14.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

15.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

16.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

17.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

18.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

19.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

20.

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

David Viscott

21.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

22.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

23.

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

Horton, Doug

24.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

27.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

28.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

29.

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

30.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

31.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

32.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

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

Charles M. Schulz

36.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

37.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

38.

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

39.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

40.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

41.

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