Motivational Quotes

Love

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

10.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

11.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

12.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

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

Ovid

14.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

15.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

16.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

17.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

18.

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

19.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

20.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

21.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

22.

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

Pavese, Cesare

23.

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

24.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

25.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

26.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

27.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

28.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

29.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

30.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

31.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

32.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

34.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

35.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

36.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

37.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

38.

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

39.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

42.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

43.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

44.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

45.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

46.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

47.

Love is a friendship set to music.