Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

- Fromm, Erich

Best Quotes about Love

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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

Crawshaw, Richard

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

10.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

11.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

12.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

13.

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

Paolo Giordano

14.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

15.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

16.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

17.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

18.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

19.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

20.

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.

21.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

22.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

23.

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

24.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

25.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

26.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

27.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

28.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

29.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

30.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

31.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

32.

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

Bible

33.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

34.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

35.

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

36.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

37.

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

38.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

39.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

40.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

41.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

42.

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

43.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

44.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

45.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

46.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

47.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

48.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

49.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

50.

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

Lewis, Sinclair