Motivational Quotes

Love

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

- Fox, Emmet

Best Quotes about Love

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

10.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

11.

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.

12.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

13.

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

Traherne, Thomas

14.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

15.

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

16.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

17.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

18.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

19.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

20.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

21.

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

Smith, Sydney

22.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

23.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

24.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

25.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

26.

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

27.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

28.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

29.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

30.

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

David Viscott

31.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

32.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

33.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

34.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

35.

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

36.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

37.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

38.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

39.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.