Motivational Quotes

Love

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Love

1.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

2.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

3.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

4.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

5.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

6.

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

David Viscott

7.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

8.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

9.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

10.

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

11.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

12.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

13.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

14.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

15.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

16.

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

17.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

18.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

19.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

20.

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

21.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

22.

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

23.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

24.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

25.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

26.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

27.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

28.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

29.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

30.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

32.

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

Buber, Martin

33.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

34.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

35.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

36.

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.

37.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

38.

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

39.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

40.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

41.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

42.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

43.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

44.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

45.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

46.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

47.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

48.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

49.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

50.

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